The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.
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.
Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.
The enemy's plan is to take away God's glory. God's plan is to have as much glory shown through your life.
It is a time to get our alignment with our dreams and our destiny in order, so we can stand vertical in the season and the dispensations of the glory. For this glory is not like the previous glory - this glory demands an alignment of Heaven and earth so all that is prepared can be released and revealed.
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?
Glory is like a circle in the water
I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.
The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.
Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.
Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnished friends?
Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength.
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.
The truth is that the glory of God is the person and presence of God- The glory is the Holy Spirit.