Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.
God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.
Eternity is full of thrones, upon which dwell thousands of children reigning on thrones of glory, with not one cubit added to their stature.
Wild nights are my glory!
I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova. . . All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing.
God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.
. . . make dads the godly leaders [of the family] with the women in submission, raising kids for the glory of God.
There have been many frustrating games. I don't there's going to be another one that isn't frustrating. That happens, but that's sport. Otherwise why would there be so much glory in victory.
To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.
It is the brave man's part to live with glory, or with glory die.
We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.
I'm creating a peculiar place so that it will give hope for houses to open up worldwide. For I will need houses, the tents of the people, to display My glory. I will have the tent of meeting and the place that you will gather and come, but I need the houses of My people to be filled with My glory I will be filling your houses!
He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.
I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.
The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.
The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams; so will grace flow more fully and freely in its near approaches to the ocean of glory.
She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!