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Glory Quotes - Page 20

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

Honore de Balzac
Sunshine, Glory

God's glory is His goodness.

Henry Ward Beecher
God, Glory, Goodness
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.

Henry Taylor
Poison, Body, Glory
Sir Henry Taylor (1834). “Philip Van Artvelde: A Dramatic Romance. In Two Parts”, p.41

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

Helen Vendler
Literature, Glory, Modern

You can't prove you're an American by waving Old Glory.

Helen Gahagan Douglas
Old Glory, Glory, Prove

Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.

Gregory David Roberts
Mean, Gun, Glory
Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.695, Macmillan

It's not the destination, It's the glory of the ride.

Giles Andreae
Travel, Glory, Destination

God?is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Mean, Giving, Glory
1882 'The Principle or Foundation', closing words. Collected in G Roberts (ed) Gerard Manley Hopkins. Selected Prose (1980).

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

George H. W. Bush
Pilots, Glory, Worn
George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

I think the cultural programming on the ABC is one of the glories of the ABC.

George Brandis
Thinking, Glory, Programming
Source: www.abc.net.au

I don't like all the glory, hand-shaking and general run of things after a tournament.

Gene Littler
Running, Hands, Glory

I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth , for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes , have seen it in all its glory .

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Eye, Want, Glory
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, V, 1877.

The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.

Freeman Dyson
Imagine, Glory, Prove

Christ within us, the hope of glory.

Frederick William Robertson
Christ, Glory
Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”

No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up with him.

Frederick C. Blesse
Aviation, Glory, Combat

Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.

Francois Fenelon
Views, Glory, Distraction
Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.125, Lulu.com

Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.

Francis Quarles
Men, Two, Glory
Francis Quarles (1967). “The complete works in prose and verse of Francis Quarles”

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

Frances Wright
Darkness, Sun, Glory
Frances Wright (1831). “A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum”, p.94

The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.

Fernando Pessoa
Giving, Glory, Poor

It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

Euripides
Life And Death, Glory, Dies
Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.152, University of Chicago Press

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Emile M. Cioran
Inspire, Sacred, Glory
"History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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.

Elias Lyman Magoon
Development, Youth, Glory
Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.51

Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Expression, Faces, Glory
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs”, p.7, The Floating Press

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Ideas, Glory

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

Edward Gibbon
Book, Taste, Glory
Edward Gibbon (1869). “The Autobiography and Correspondence of Edward Gibbon, the Historian”, p.330

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