#glory

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. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#attraction #being #being strong #carries #carry

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#attained #education #glory #more #natural

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. ↗

— William Blake

#christianity #conquer #forgiveness #glory

The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

#christ #come #covenant #glory #going

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

— Amelia Earhart

#comparable #crash #everything #feats #get

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#fleeting #forever #glory #obscurity

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. ↗

— George Eliot

#close #glory #i #know #leave

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. ↗

— George Eliot

#easily #glory #killing #life #mortals

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. ↗

— Epicurus

#difficulty #glory #greater #more #surmounting

I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me. ↗

— Mike Epps

#give #glory #god #happening #i