#glory

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#grave #lead #paths

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#glory #sight #spare #visions

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. ↗

— Sai Baba

#glory #god #into #look #message

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#glory #once #worth

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through was longing... For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#beauty

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? ↗

— Lord Byron

#grave #steps #tracks #who

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#glory #grace #perfected

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#glory #goal #lies #reach #reaching

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#also #brother #glory #i #i think

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory? ↗

— Charles de Lint

#beyond #churches #dark #did #doors