Glorious Quotes

• The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.

  

  William Carey
  • Prayer
  • Grace
  • Answers

• And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.

  

  George Washington
  • World
  • Mankind
  • Perfection

• If you're performing for the right reasons, it's glorious.

  

  Dion
  • Reasons
  • Performing
  • Glorious

• We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• How could God invite you to heaven, where the most exciting thing to do all day is gaze upon His glorious face, if you're not in heaven right here on earth when you're alone with Him? Do you think that after you die, suddenly you'll be in heaven and "presto!" all at once you're not going to like worldly things anymore? All of a sudden you'll love more than anything else just to hang out with God, when you couldn't stand being alone with Him even 20 minutes a day? Thinking Heaven Earth Exciting Hanging Out Glorious Worldly Faces Minutes Worldly Things Exciting Things Invites Dies Things To Do Ifs

  

  Keith Green
  • Thinking
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Possess
  • Merit
  • Sceptre

• They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

  

  Francis Marion Crawford
  • Causes
  • Memorial
  • Graves

• I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

  

  Sarah Kane
  • Mind
  • Awake
  • Blanket

• I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Done
  • Sacrifice
  • Glory

• I have never seen the day when I was discouraged, as I could always see glorious blessings ahead.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Blessing
  • Glorious
  • Discouraged

• Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

  

  William Wycherley
  • Pleasure
  • Drunk
  • Manly

• The north! the north! from out the north What founts of light are breaking forth, And streaming up these evening skies, A glorious wonder to our eyes!

  

  Hannah Flagg Gould
  • Wonder
  • Eye
  • Evening

• A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.

  

  Alicia Markova
  • Life
  • Glorious
  • Ballerina

• I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Love
  • Sad
  • Prudence

• It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.

  

  Bonaventure
  • Cold
  • Charity
  • Servant

• The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Simple
  • Path
  • Tragic

• Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Gold
  • Autumn
  • Woods

• Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.

  

  Ernest Gellner
  • Culture
  • Illusion
  • Prejudice

• I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter.

  

  Ai Qing
  • Moment
  • Sound
  • Performances

• Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Lovers
  • Glorious
  • Cigar

• The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer; and it is in this way, we have the greatest reason to suppose, that the glorious out-pouring of the Spirit, which we expect at last, will be bestowed.

  

  William Carey
  • Reason
  • Prayer
  • Spirit

• The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Feels
  • Names
  • States

• Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!

  

  Homer
  • War
  • Fire
  • Gates

• How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Painful
  • Exception
  • Glorious

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