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Friday, May 24th, 2024
the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Quotations regarding 'Glory'

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We've had drive-by shootings. I've been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle. But the way we look at it, if people do the worst they can, we'll still wake up in glory.
Troy Perry, American Clergyman (1940-  )
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.
Stephen Phillips, English Poet (1864-1915)
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Zebulon Pike, American Soldier (1779-1813)
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Plutarch, Greek Philosopher
I'll always be chasing you... Glory.
Sidney Poitier, American Actor (1924-  )
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
Jane Porter, Irish Novelist
I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
Sextus Propertius, Roman Poet
No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
Sextus Propertius, Roman Poet
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
Jean Racine, French Dramatist (1639-1699)
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
George Ripley, American Activist
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
Frederick William Robertson, English Clergyman (1816-1853)
If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.
Bryan Robson, English Athlete (1957-  )
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
Samuel Rutherford, Scottish Theologian
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust, Roman Historian
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.
David Sarnoff, American Inventor (1891-1971)
The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian Clergyman (1452-1498)
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Walter Scott, Scottish Novelist (1771-1832)
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist (1856-1950)
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.
Neil Sheehan, American Journalist (1936-  )
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
Alan Shepard, American Astronaut (1923-1998)
 
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