Glorious Quotes - Page 35

• As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child's intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Holiday

  "Towards a Psychology of Education".

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• Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.

  Karl Barth

  Christian, Action, Worship

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• It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Encouragement, Simple, Giving

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

  Mitch Albom

  Powerful, Writing, Style

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• Wonderful, glorious things are in store for you if you will only believe, obey, and endure.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Believe, Wonderful, Stores

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• Great has been our past, wonderful is our present, and glorious can be our future.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Past, Wonderful, Our Future

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• Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we’re doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.

  Ann Romney

  Mom, Daughter, Motherhood

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• A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Lasts, Action

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.198

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• My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
  My sin, not in part but the whole,
  Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
  Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

  Horatio Spafford

  Sins Not, Soul, Bears

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• For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

  John Flavel

  Understanding, Mystery, Infinite

  John Flavel (1836). “The Fountain of Life Opened; Or, A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory. 1671”, p.163

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• The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Heaven, News

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• Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Music Is, Gift From God

  Martin Luther (1818). “The familiar discourses of dr. Martin Luther, tr. by H. Bell”, p.428

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• The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

  Plutarch

  Kings, Future, Sweat

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• A glorious life is filled with companions who have open hearts.

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Glorious Life, Life Is

  Gary Zukav, Linda Francis (2012). “Heart Of The Soul: Emotional Awareness”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.

  Richard J. Mouw

  Reality, Vegas, Jerusalem

  Richard J. Mouw (1994). “Consulting the Faithful: What Christian Intellectuals Can Learn from Popular Religion”, p.22, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• For the world to become a better place, someone has to pay a price, I think it's glorious to sacrifice for the sake of social progress and fighting injustice.

  Xu Zhiyong

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.

  Ian Holm

  War, Eye, Doom And Gloom

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• The color, the shape, and the texture--none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so glorious) history, and that history extends back years--centuries, even--before Oscar de la Renta's 2002 collection.

  Tim Gunn

  Color, Years, Texture

  Tim Gunn, Ada Calhoun (2013). “Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

  I. J. Good

  Objectivity, Judgement, Calling

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• Our sins are forgiven and we are accepted as righteous by God because of both the sinless life and sin-bearing death of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no greater motivation for dealing with sin in our lives than the realization of these two glorious truths of the gospel.

  Jerry Bridges

  Jesus, Motivation, Two

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate”, p.26, Tyndale House

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• Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories, and charitable in spirit.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Beautiful, Memories, Simple

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• Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted.

  Anna Quindlen

  Stars, Spring, Moon

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

  Amy Poehler

  Children, Apology, People

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.

  Victoria Moran

  Adventure, World, Vegan

  "Meatless Monday: Victoria Moran, Hanging Out At The Intersection Of Magic And Main Street". Interview with Ellen Kanner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• Children are like tiny flowers: They are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.

  Friedrich Frobel

  Beautiful, Children, Flower

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