Glorious Quotes - Page 38

• Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  William Law (2001). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4”, p.139, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!

  Lord Byron

  Night, Slumber, Prom

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Ice, Eternity

  "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Književna reč, Beograd, "Eternity and Eternity", (p. 32), 1999.

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• The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean-when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

  Henry Miller

  Lying, Mean, Men

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• A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

  John Piper

  Running, Heart, Waiting

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• Lord, I am no longer my own, but Yours. Put me to what You will, rank me with whom You will. Let be employed by You or laid aside for You, exalted for You or brought low by You. Let me have all things, let me have nothing, I freely and heartily yield all things to Your pleasure and disposal. And now, O glorious and blessed God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, You are mine and I am Yours. So be it. Amen.

  John Wesley

  Father, Blessed, Son

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• The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.

  John Piper

  Christian, Jesus, Life Changing

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• Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

  Anthony Wayne

  Distance, Men, Giving

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• To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.

  John Piper

  Heart, Mean, Grace

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• Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Men, Vanity

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• To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

  John Locke

  Two, Titles, Reason

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: In Nine Volumes”, p.274

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• Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

  Edward Young

  Men, Race, Looks

  Edward Young, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edward Young: In Four Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.108

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• What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

  Lord Byron

  Death, Sunset, Decay

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1317, Delphi Classics

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• I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

  Maya Angelou

  Lonely, Gratitude, Attitude

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.32, Random House

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• Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Have Faith, Sin

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.477

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• One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

  Walter Scott

  Birthday, Names, Glorious Life

  Sir Walter Scott (1820). “Waverly Novels: The antiquary. The black dwarf. Old mortality”, p.608

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• Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  World, God Within Us

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Hyperion”, p.55, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Mind, Gorges

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gains, Disability, Vocation

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• Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Jobs, Moving, Loss

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• Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Maternity, Born

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.347, Gideon House Books

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• My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Brother, Book, School

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• Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, p. 121, 2000.

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• Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Air, Vision

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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