Glorify Quotes - Page 6

• Preserve there [bohemia] a hidden seed to glorify thy name.

  John Amos Comenius

  Names, Seeds, Preserves

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• For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it (life), whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to 'glorify God and enjoy him forever.'

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Forever, Devil

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Girl, Country

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• God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

  John Piper

  Grace, Wealth, Christianity

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.159, Multnomah

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• We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.

  Saint Basil

  Father, Son, Honor

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• I think as Christians, we all have the same calling, and that calling is to love God with all our heart, mind, and soul and love others as ourselves and to glorify God in everything that we do.

  LeCrae

  Christian, Heart, Thinking

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• Baptize the nations! far and nigh,The triumphs of the cross recordThe name of Jesus glorify,Till every people call Him Lord.

  James Montgomery

  Jesus, Names, People

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• We can each rest in the knowledge that God is sovereign over our life's situation. No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.

  Joshua Harris

  Mistake, Past, Matter

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• It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.

  John Wesley

  Justify, Sanctify

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.42

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• When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.

  Elizabeth George

  Well Being, Wells, Our Lives

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• We give glory to God when we trust him to do what he has promised to do-especially when all human possibilities are exhausted. Faith glorifies God. That is why God planned for faith to be the way we are justified.

  John Piper

  Giving, Way, Exhausted

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• A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

  Jon Pareles

  Jobs, Stress, Artist

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• Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Law, Life And Death

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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• Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Lying, Light, Land

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• A lot of stand-up specials for cable are meant to glorify the comedian. They put you in a really beautiful theater, and sometimes they even blow a little smoke in there to make it misty and sweet. They make the guy look like he's a big rock star. But comedy's not really glamorous. It doesn't enhance comedy for it to look good.

  Louis C. K.

  Beautiful, Sweet, Stars

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.

  Toni Morrison

  Jobs, Struggle, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

  Warsan Shire

  Kind

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• All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

  Kelly Miller

  People, Vision, Looks

  Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”

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• I'M FRUSTRATED, because pop culture, music and movies glorify these types of police citizen altercations and promote an invincible attitude that continues to get young men killed in real life, away from safety movie sets and music studios.

  Benjamin Watson

  Attitude, Real, Men

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.14, NavPress

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• History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

  Paula Wall

  Funny, Real, Color

  Paula Wall (2010). “The Rock Orchard: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate.Not the compromising conciliatory politics of humaneness, not the Erasmian, but rather the politics of vested power which firmly exploits every opportunity, politics in the sense of the "Principe," has determined the development of European history ever since.

  Stefan Zweig

  Opportunity, Reality, Views

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• Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.

  Dallas Willard

  Sight, Trying, Doe

  Dallas Willard, Jan Johnson (2015). “Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.72, InterVarsity Press

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• One line typed twenty years ago
  can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint
  to glorify art as detachment
  or torture of those we
  did not love but also
  did not want to kill.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Wall, Years

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I believe that the purpose of life is to glorify God.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Scary, Purpose

  "Evangelicals Face New Division: Global Warming". "All Things Considered" with Debbie Elliott, www.npr.org. March 25, 2007.

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• We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Beautiful, War, Hygiene

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