I knew every one of my father's lines in 'Glory' - I broke the VHS tape - but I hid my love of acting to make it as my own man.
The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.
Let go the lure
The striving to unmake;
Behold the truth
Whenever heart may ache
There is a glory
In a great mistake.
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.
I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.
Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.
Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.
So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.
It's depicted in comics as, like, this gung-ho, 'Let's die in battle, in glory' idea, because that's just the genre we're in. But that's not what war really is.
The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.
Hollywood can be a draining industry. For all the glitz and glory and wonderful parts of our business, it takes it's toll on your inner self.
Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.
Ere, in the northern gale,
The summer tresses of the trees are gone,
The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on.
This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."
And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.
God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
It happens too frequently that after a couple of poor performances, athletes are dumped. That's unfair as Olympic glory is a long path.
I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.
Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth!
There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.
Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.
Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one
I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
I now understand more of our calling. The weakest instruments are chosen to do the greatest works so that the glory might go to God.
Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.
The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
Acquaintance; companion;
One dear brilliant woman;
The best-endowed, the elect,
All by their youth undone,
All, all, by that inhuman
Bitter glory wrecked.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.
I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.
I tell my friends that 'you don't know how lucky you are to be in Tasmania, because when you go away internationally, you get to see it in its glory.'
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.
While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The Angel of the Lord came down, And Glory shone around.
If we want to know God personally, to relate to Him intimately, we must be prepared to receive and experience His glory.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.
The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.
Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!
'Glory' pays tribute to honorable men who faced unimaginable discrimination even as they fought to preserve basic human rights.
Defensive lineman in the 3-4 isn't a glory position. He is supposed to tie up as many linemen as possible in order to free the linebackers.
I use my sport and my talent as a tool to spread God's word. Whatever I get out of it, all glory goes to Him.
I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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