Glory Quotes - Page 9

• Simplicity is the glory of expression.

  Walt Whitman

  Simple, Expression, Simplicity

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

  Thomas Merton

  Fire, Feet, World

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.

  Horace Mann

  Flames, Sky

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• In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stars, Men, Order

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• There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy throne; While all that borrows life from Thee is ever in Thy care; And everywhere that we can be, Thou, God art present there.

  Isaac Watts

  Art, Flower, Blow

  Isaac Watts, “Praise For Creation And Providence”

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• Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Soul, World, May

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Progress”

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• The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

  Epictetus

  Positive, Encouraging, Uplifting

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• When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

  Pierre Corneille

  Motivational, Success, Fighting

  'Le Cid' (1637) act 2, sc. 2

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• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Crazy, War

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

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• Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Witty, Time, Powerful

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• Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Grace

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• Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.

  Edgar Guest

  Friendship, Simple, Needs

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• ... the Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6). Otherwise we make a vain pretence and show, if we follow not His steps, Whose name we glory in, and assuredly they would not be irksome to us, but would free us from all dangers, if we loved nothing but what He commanded us to love.

  Pope Leo I

  Christian, Names, Steps

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• Anyone who has fallen into fornication, adultery or any other such bodily impurity, should desist from this revolting filth and cleanse himself through confession, tears, fasting and the like. For God judges unrepentant fornicators and adulterers. He condemns them, dismisses them and consigns them to hell, unquenchable fire and other never-ending punishments, saying, 'Let the impure and accursed be taken away, lest they see and enjoy the glory of the Lord' (cf. Isa. 26:10 LXX).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Taken, Punishment

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however enduring, has an end, and glory and joy which, great as they are, will fade, and wealth that will perish with this present life, and we labour for the sake of such things; ought we not to seek the kingdom, glory, joy and riches which, as well as being all-surpassing, are unfading and endless, and ought we not to endure a little constraint in order to inherit it?

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Order, Long

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• Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Toys, Problem

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• Nothing steals God's glory more than worrying believers who are driven through life by fear

  Louie Giglio

  Worry, Stealing, Driven

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• When we know God to be our Father, should we not desire that he be known as such by all? And if we do not have this passion, that all creatures do him homage, is it not a sign that his glory means little to us?

  John Calvin

  Father, Passion, Mean

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• Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.

  Matt Papa

  Eye, Guitar, Guy

  Twitter post from May 08, 2012

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• In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.

  Cadmus M. Wilcox

  War, Hell, Hours

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• Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Lying, Goal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1979). “Collected Works”

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• You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Shame, Preserves

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• It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.

  Sophocles

  Soul, Self Improvement, Be Good

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• Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Teacher, Children, Oneness

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• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Being Strong, Loneliness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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