As sinners we are like addicts – addicted to ourselves and our own projects. The theology of glory simply seeks to give those projects eternal legitimacy. The remedy for the theology of glory, therefore, cannot...

God’s ultimate purpose for creating you is not for you to go to heaven. If the purpose for your creation was just for you to go to heaven, you will die immediately you got born-again....

Part of what we pick up in looking at Jesus in the gospel is a way of viewing the whole world. That worldview informs all our values and deeply shapes our thinking and decision-making. Another...

Waiting accentuates our helplessness, ant that is what God seems committed to revealing. Only when we know ourselves to be helpless do we fully experience his grace and glory. We have to wait for it.

Glory hallelujah, you’re the first one in the administration that’s said that.

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn’t it what all the great wars and battles are fought for — so that at day’s end a family may...

Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.

It seems this term would have been the crowning glory with the opening of the new arena. I think it’s a surprise if he does not run.

The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned his dreams by night, calling to him and pleading with him to unlock...

Awake my soul, the glory of the Lord is upon me.

Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense!That all this good of evil shall produce,And evil turn to good; more wonderfulThan that which by creation first brought forthLight out of darkness! Full of doubt I stand,Whether I should...

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was:...

So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as...

I really don’t bask in the glory of the ‘W’.

Walk on with the spirit of boldness; talk on with the glory of confidence. You have a mandated seal on your chest… When you go with a bold chest, the devil and his cohorts must...

Realize that the tests you endure will mold your character, persona, and will. The more heartbreak and pain you will feel with your trials in life, the greater your joy and glory will be once...

Everything God does—past, present, or future, whether in grace or in judgment—is to reveal His glory.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

We will never become the people of hope and blessing we’re meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in...

God must build our anointing strong, so He can lay His glory thick.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

When people don’t gossip or talk about you, you are not making waves.

your glory determines your haters

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

The Christian Journey is not just to a place “Heaven”, it is also to a person “Jesus”. Ephesians 4:13 says “Till we all come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ

All of us,’ he said, ‘have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in...

Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paintsHemingway testing his shotgunCeline going broke as a doctor of medicinethe impossibility of being humanVillon expelled from Paris for being a thiefFaulkner drunk in the...

In all things, may the victory come to us while the glory goes to God. We can’t handle the glory… It only brings pride to us! We can handle the victory… It brings a joyful...

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself...

At the end of the day, only what we do for Christ will last. Appreciate each day, one another, and the vessels God may use to acknowledge our individual and collective skillsets and let’s always...

May those who follow their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad.

{The final resolutions at Robert Ingersoll’s funeral, quoted here}Whereas, in the order of nature — that nature which moves with unerring certainty in obedience to fixed laws — Robert G. Ingersoll has gone to that...

There’s no glory like those who save their country.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

Truly I am God’s Beauty, His Trophy, His Outstretched Arms…I am here for His Glory and Pleasure.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs

When honor and glory get your squad killed and your brothers-in-arms shoved under the rug, you stop believing in the terms.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Whether you are man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or free, happy or unhappy; whether you bore in your elevation the splendour of the crown or in humble obscurity only the toil and heat...

An imagination submitted to the movement of the Holy Spirit is a powerful tool in the hands of God to write testaments of His glory.

They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory in the great eyes of Odysseus

The clouds rolled over the hills like a pack of midgets wearing gray togas somersaulting in unison, and I thought it’s a glorious day to be alive and in love.

He compuesto un poema a la victoria:¡Quién lo hubiera creído!¡El doctor MacRae ha sonreído!¡Es verdad!

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

I am Your servant; You are my Lord and Master. Nanak: my honor and glory are Yours, God.

The glory of the carpenter is the tables and chairs he manufactures; the glory of God is you and me because He manufactured us!