Glorify Quotes - Page 10

• The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Purpose, Positive Marriage, Ultimate

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe/Companion Guide for Lies Women Believe- 2 book set”, p.92, Moody Publishers

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• Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer, and he shall strengthen thy Heart; wait, I say, on the Lord:' It is impossible to express the Comfort this gave me. In Answer, I thankfully laid down the Book, and was no more sad, at least, not on that Occasion.

  Daniel Defoe

  Cheer, Book, Heart

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• The Church is the Church in her worship. Worship is not an optional extra, but is of the very life and essence of the Church. ...Man is never more truly man than when he worships God. He rises to all the heights of human dignity when he worships God, and all God's purpose in Creation and in Redemption are fulfilled in us as together in worship we are renewed in and through Christ, and in the name of Christ we glorify God.

  J. B. Torrance

  Men, Essence, Names

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• The absolute goal of vision for ministry is to glorify God.

  George Barna

  Goal, Vision, Ministry

  George Barna (2010). “The Power of Vision: Discover and Apply God's Plan for Your Life and Ministry (Large Print 16pt)”, p.36, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.

  Dale Carnegie

  Simple, Symphony, Simplicity

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• We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.

  R. C. Sproul

  Giving Up, Doe, Able

  R.C. Sproul (2017). “The R.C. Sproul Collection Volume 1: The Holiness of God / Chosen by God”, p.364, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Thinking, America, Hands

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• Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

  Meher Baba

  Giving Not Receiving, Diversity, Delight

  "Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba". Book by Bhau Kalchuri, 1986.

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• It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.

  John Owen

  Soul, Christianity

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• I love coaching football, and winning a Super Bowl was a goal I've had for a long time. But it has never been my purpose in life. My purpose in life is simply to glorify God. We have to be careful that we don't let the pursuit of our life's goals, no matter how important they seem, cause us to lose sight of our purpose. I coach football. But the good I can do to glorify God along the way is my real purpose.

  Tony Dungy

  Football, Real, Winning

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• As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant. My friends will write histories that glorify me and prove I was more important than I was. And two generations or three from now, some serious sober historian will write a history that sort of implies I was whoever I was.

  Newt Gingrich

  Writing, Two, Enemy

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• Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Rebel, Defiance

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the world, and satisfies your own soul. I believe that-and I want you to believe it, too.

  David Jeremiah

  Spiritual, Believe, Emotional

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• God's grace is not given to make us feel better, but to glorify Him... Good feelings may come, or they may not, but that is not the issue. The issue is whether or not we honor God by the way we respond to our circumstances.

  Jerry Bridges

  Feel Better, Issues, Grace

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.316, NavPress

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• Living to glorify God means doing everything... for Him, His way, to point to His greatness and to reflect His goodness.

  Joshua Harris

  Mean, Greatness, Way

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• You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea populated with its own creatures, the air filled with birds which scour it in every direction. Studious listener, think of all these creations which God has drawn out of nothing; . . . recognize everywhere the wisdom of God; never cease to wonder, and, through every creature, to glorify the Creator.

  Saint Basil

  Animal, Thinking, Air

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• Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways.

  John Piper

  Sex, Heart, Way

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• The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primarily for us. There is no doubt that God wants us to enjoy it and even use its resources to optimize a good life for ourselves. But the ultimate purpose of creation is worship. Nature and all living things were created to glorify God.

  Tony Campolo

  Good Life, Self, Doubt

  Tony Campolo (1995). “Carpe Diem: Seize the Day”, Thomas Nelson

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• If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify the name of God, then we shall see the strongest and boldest promises of the Bible about prayer fulfilled. Then we shall see such answers to prayer as we had never thought were possible.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Names, Promise

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

  David Lilienthal

  Reality, Government, Pieces

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• Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Mistake, Mean, Artist

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• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  Walter Dean Myers

  War, Sacrifice, People

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• Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.

  George C. Lorimer

  Doe, Fellowship, Poor

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 247), 1895.

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• We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

  T. S. Eliot

  Light, Invisible, Thee

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.176, Faber & Faber

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• I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.

  Benjamin Carson

  Running, People, Romance

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