glory quotes

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

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

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.