Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon them, and you will see their increasing glory, like that increasing cloud (1 Kings 18:44).
The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.
Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world.
Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.
Salvation is a work of God to show His glory. That’s why He’s not going to let it fail.
The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.
If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.
The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.
Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and that he is a child of God, equal heir to all the bounties of God; and that goodness is riches, kindness is power, and freedom is glory. Above all, every man is born with an inner capacity to take him as far as his imagination can dream or envision-providing he is free to dream and envision.
I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.
Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
