George Eliot Quotes About Glory

• Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

  George Eliot

  Self, Objectivity, Vision

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.386, Xist Publishing

• For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.

  George Eliot

  Sorry, Passion, Self

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 3, ch. 29

• Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Literature, Murder

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

• Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, "Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen.

  George Eliot

  Art, Prayer, Father

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.26, George Eliot

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