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How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity...

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Graham GreeneThe Power and the Glory

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "l...

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J. C. RyleJohn (Expository Thoughts on the Gospels): Vol. 1

But Ilúvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray ofte...

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Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence tha...

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James MacDonaldVertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way o...

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The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with al...

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The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but...

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John CalvinCommentary on Psalms - Volume 5

Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense!That all this good of evil shall produce,And evil turn to goo...

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This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

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John MuirMy First Summer in the Sierra

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases an...

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John Piper (artist)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

Part of what we pick up in looking at Jesus in the gospel is a way of viewing the whole world. That ...

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John Piper (artist)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases an...

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John Piper (artist)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

Part of what we pick up in looking at Jesus in the gospel is a way of viewing the whole world. That ...

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John Piper (artist)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases an...

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John Piper (theologian)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

Part of what we pick up in looking at Jesus in the gospel is a way of viewing the whole world. That ...

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John Piper (theologian)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases an...

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John Piper (theologian)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

Part of what we pick up in looking at Jesus in the gospel is a way of viewing the whole world. That ...

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John Piper (theologian)God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

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

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I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, t...

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An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-pre...

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Mine eyes have seen the coming of the glory of the Lord.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume."On my ...

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Gregory of Nyssa points out that Moses's vision of God began with the light, with the visible burnin...

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In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most ...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

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

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There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans chargi...

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'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

A mighty fortress is our God A bulwark never failing Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills p...

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God is incorporeal divine supreme infinite Mind Spirit Soul Principle life Truth Love.

[...T]he ways of God have been manifested beyond example: the sea is divided, the cloud has led the ...

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

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A God-intoxicated man.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

God the Great Giver can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane.

I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the...

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When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate...

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

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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and...

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Karsa's expression soured. 'When I began this journey, I was young. I believed in one thing. Ibeliev...

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We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the cal...

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Whether you are man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or free, happy or unhappy; whether you bore in...

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Søren KierkegaardThe Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

A martyrdom is always the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to brin...

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The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...

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Lighted advertisements went running up dark red facades and dissipating again. He would pass girls; ...

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If there were no God it would be necessary to invent him.

One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.

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

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides u...

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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will griev...

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But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play--and don't play t...

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Yogi BerraWhen You Come to a Fork in the Road

And it seemed increasingly obvious that the world would have to topple if he was to attain the glory...

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Yukio MishimaThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"We trust Sir that God is on our side." "It is more important to know that we are on God's side."

He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind.

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss ...

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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also ...

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There are miracles and glory in every child. Our glory lies in empowering them to flourish their glo...

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In this vast cosmic orchestra, peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, l...

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Peace is the music of every soul. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

Rock of Ages cleft for me Let me hide myself in thee.

I do understand that they fall when I'm least able to pay attention because poems fall not from a tr...

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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...

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That joy. That madness. The gods must feel this way every moment of every day. It is as if the world...

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I took a day to search for God And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge through woods untam...

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Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind di...

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Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that...

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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civil...

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Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paintsHemingway testing his shotgunCe...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle...

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He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as a...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared wha...

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The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it a...

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The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and suppl...

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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and ...

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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or ...

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Edward AbbeyConfessions of a Barbarian

God's in His Heaven - All's right with the world!

[There is a] quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart...

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Elizabeth GilbertBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by rev...

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Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of vi...

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I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and th...

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There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughl...

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The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glo...

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François FénelonLes aventures de Télémaque suivies des aventures d'Aritonoüs

What is it: is man only a blunder of God or God only a blunder of man?

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

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We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great t...

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