Glory Quotes & Sayings :: Finest Quotes

~ Oh Jesus, they have built these churches for the sake of their own glory, and embellished them with silk and melted gold. . . . They left the bodies of Thy chosen poor wrapped in tattered raiment in the cold night. . . . They filled the sky with the smoke of burning candles and incense and left the bodies of Thy faithful worshipers empty of bread. . . . They raised their voices with hymns of praise, but deafened themselves to the cry and moan of the widows and orphans. Come again, Oh Living Jesus, and drive the vendors of Thy faith from Thy sacred temple, for they have turned it into a dark cave where vipers of hypocrisy and falsehood crawl and abound. ~

Kahlil Gibran

~ I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. ~

Stan Isaacs

~ Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous! ~

Sir John Suckling

~ This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke ~

Jane Grigson

~ Meditation is the life of the soul; action is the soul of meditation; honor is the reward of action; so meditate, that thou mayst do; so do, that thou mayst purchase honor; for which purchase, give God the glory. ~

Francis Quarles

~ The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ Simplicity is the glory of expression ~

Walt Whitman

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

Dwight David Eisenhower

~ Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone. ~

Paul Tillich

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

James Arthur Baldwin

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

Jonathan Edwards

~ Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy ~

Samuel Rutherford

~ Consciousness is the glory of creation. ~

James Broughton

~ Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ~

Edwin Markham

~ There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will quickly choke its competitors to death, and the fencerow rose will just as quietly crowd out any other plant that tried to share its roothold. Idealism and mercy are human terms and human concepts. ~

Hal Borland

~ Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities, and in its brief course I discern all the verities and realities of my existence; the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the spirit of beauty. ~

Helen Keller

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