Pastoral Resources

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

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

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.