Glory Quotes - Page 28

• Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

  William James

  War, Men, Modern

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.275, Routledge

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• I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Creative, Streaming

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• At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

  Alexander the Great

  Youth, Achilles, Found

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• People are telling me they're praying for me. They're proud of me. They're thankful for the things I've said in the mainstream media. I have to give the glory to God for that.

  Marc Martel

  Media, People, Giving

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Writing, Simplicity, Facts

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.456, Library of Alexandria

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• I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Past, Levels

  "This I Believe", 1952.

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• The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens.

  Galileo Galilei

  Book, Greatness, Shining

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• Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.

  Emma Goldman

  Exercise, Men, Shoes

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Living My Life”, p.428, Courier Corporation

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• The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Pain, Self

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

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• There is no more fulfilling experience in all the world than the sense that God's Spirit has taken you and dared to use you for His glory.

  Dennis F. Kinlaw

  Taken, Use, World

  Dennis F. Kinlaw (1985). “Preaching in the spirit”, Zondervan

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• A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.

  John Quincy Adams

  Writing, Men, Names

  "Rocking the Vote, in the 1820s and Now" by Jon Meacham, www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2010.

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• It's a brutal world out there. If you consider the case of superstar Rajesh Khanna, he was a darling of the masses in his hey days, and his fans resurfaced only after he passed away. Such is the life of actors: one gets so addicted to fame and glory, and then it is very difficult to accept a fall. You are forgotten and only remembered when you die!

  Bipasha Basu

  Fall, Fans, Hey

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• Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

  J. I. Packer

  People, Saint, Holiness

  J. I. Packer (2005). “Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God”, p.88, Baker Books

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• I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.

  Behdad Sami

  Appreciate, Hell And Back, Roller Coaster

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• Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its stars, its poetry and fireplaces and laughter, for granted. We forget that experience is not, or should not be, a casual encounter, but rather an embrace. Consequently, for too many of us, when we come to the end, we wonder where the years have gone. And we suspect we have not lived.

  Jack McDevitt

  Stars, Laughter, Wine

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• America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Patriotic, Sacrifice

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• How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Pride, Self, Facts

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• If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

  Poemen

  Two, Overcoming, Ease

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• God does not forsake you. It is because he wishes to increase your glory that oftentimes he permits you to fall sick. Keep up your courage so that you may also hear him say: Do you think I have dealt with you otherwise than that you may be shown to be just?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Fall, Thinking, Sick

  John Chrysostom (2010). “Discourses Against Judaizing Christians (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 68)”, p.31, CUA Press

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• I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

  Theodore Bikel

  Integrity, Exercise, Facts

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• The suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to the landscape, an unexpected glory. Over the cheap tracts and littered arroyos one sometimes see a light as clean as that recorded by O'Sullivan. Since it owes nothing to our care, it is an assurance; beauty is final.

  Robert Adams

  Depressing, Light, Perspective

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• What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Doctors, Anxiety, Able

  Aneurin Bevan's Speech in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. February 9, 1948.

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• To use biblical language, those who exchange the glory of God for something in creation will also exchange the image of God for something in creation - and because it is something less than God, it always leads to a lower view of humanity.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Biblical, Views, Humanity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring to the Divine Mother of the Universe.) I have no wish, no ambition now. Blessed be Mother! I am the servant of Ramakrishna. I am merely a machine. I know nothing else. Nor do I want to know.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Blessed, Ambition

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• Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Goes On, Minutes

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