We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.
When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.
Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His.
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.
Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...
In one day the Eucharist will make you produce more for the glory of God than a whole lifetime without it.
I think that's a big trope in pop music: the blaze-of-glory breakup. It's not one that I particularly identify with, but it's definitely possible.
For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.
...make dads the godly leaders [of the family] with the women in submission, raising kids for the glory of God.
Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
God can take anything we have, as long as we give Him the glory for it. He can develop it and make it acceptable in music for the people.
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!
When Christ becomes our focal point, we become everything we are meant to be-a servant to the glory of the King of all kings.
It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
If Jesus is here we are going to walk out of this place to live our lives to the glory of God the Father.
The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!
Until Jesus comes, his resurrection glory in the church is a matter of strength made perfect in suffering.
Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.
Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect.
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.
It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.
When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.
When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.
You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.
New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.
No flowery road leads to glory.
[Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
Paul [Walker]’s kindness was pure. He never asked for credit of glory. He was just a really good guy.
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
For through it all--above, beyond it all--
I know the far-sent message of the years,
I feel the coming glory of the Light.
Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.
I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.
So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf. You have been King of my glory won't You be my Prince of Peace.
What is Fortune, what is Fame?
Futile gold and phantom name-
Riches buried in a cave,
Glory written on a grave.
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.
The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.
And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.
Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?
If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.
I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory... Love.
I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.
Nothing steals God's glory more than worrying believers who are driven through life by fear
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
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