Pastoral Resources

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

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.

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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.

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

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.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.