Glory Quotes - Page 14

• Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high.
  Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low.
  The universe's inward voices cry
  "Amen" to either song of joy and woe.
  Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Voice, Joy

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1856). “Poems”, p.260

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• scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fighting, Bird, Satisfaction

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Three Guineas (Annotated)”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Used, Gift From God

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

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• There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Night, Names

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.146

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• How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Writing, Signatures, Philosopher

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• If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Jobs, Believe, Fighting

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• Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation.

  Washington Irving

  Art, Struggle, Adversity

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• Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.

  Phillips Brooks

  Enthusiasm, Losing, Admiration

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• Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

  Phillips Brooks

  Eye, Heaven, Firsts

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.70

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• I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives
  First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves
  The world; and, vainly favored, it repays
  The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze
  By no change of its large calm front of snow.

  Robert Browning

  Long, Snow, World

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.146, Lulu.com

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• Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

  William Shenstone

  Simple, Mind, Relax

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.157

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• So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

  Juvenal

  Virtue, Thirst, Greater

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• Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth!

  Gerald Massey

  Love, Stars, Rays

  Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.394

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• In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring infidelity, and contempt of God; so that the world which was once over-run with ignorance, now by wisdom knew not God, but changed the glory of the incorruptible God as much as in the most barbarous ages, into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Nay, as they increased in science and politeness, they ran into more abundant and extravagant idolatries.

  William Carey

  Running, Ignorance, Men

  "An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians". Book by William Carey, 1792.

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• Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Men, Joy, Rewards

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 3, 1895.

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• It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

  Solomon

  Kings, Matter, Honour

  Proverbs 25:2,

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• And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.

  Harry Chapin

  Sweet, Rain, Writing

  Song: Story Of A Life, 1980

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• And while blood's the only language that your deaf old ears can hear And still you will not answer with that message coming clear Does it mean there's no more ripples in your tired old glory stream And the buzzards own the carcass of your dream?

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Tired, Mean

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Selfish, Passion, Exercise

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Strong, Heart

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “African and European Addresses”, p.120, tredition

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• Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of our homes, the order and serenity of our minds, the spirit of patience and tender mercy in our hearts. Then will even the merest drudgery of duty cease to humble us, when we transfigure it by the glory of our own spirit.

  James Martineau

  Home, Heart, Humble

  James Martineau (1844). “Endeavors After the Christian Life: A Volume of Discourses”, p.37

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• However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.

  Sarada Devi

  Beautiful, Strong, People

  Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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• I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

  Hans Frank

  Musical, Care, Taste

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  People, Doe, Want

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Power of Three”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Jesus lives! the same comforting, helping, instructing, loving Elder Brother, as when John leaned on His bosom, as when He lifted Peter up from the waves, as when He dried Mary's tears with His, "Thy sins are forgiven thee." Jesus lives! the same almighty Saviour, Guide, Intercessor, as when He ascended to glory with the broken fetters of sin and death in His pierced hands.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Jesus, Brother, Hands

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 94, 1895.

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