#glory

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

— William Cowper

#glory #guilt #principles #selfish #shame

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #being alone #expresses #glory #loneliness

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself. ↗

— John Gielgud

#exhibiting #forget #glory #half #shame

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#add #education #glory #i #man

Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#many #may #soul #windows #world

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#begins #book #come #do not judge #ends

Whether you are man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or free, happy or unhappy; whether you bore in your elevation the splendour of the crown or in humble obscurity only the toil and heat of the day; whether your name will be remembered for as long as the world lasts, and so will have been remembered as long as it lasted, or you are without a name and run namelessly with the numberless multitude; whether the glory that surrounded you surpassed all human description, or the severest and most ignominious human judgment was passed on you -- eternity asks you and every one of these millions of millions, just one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not, whether so in despair that you did not know that you were in despair, or in such a way that you bore this sickness concealed deep inside you as your gnawing secret, under your heart like the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that, a terror to others, you raged in despair. If then, if you have lived in despair, then whatever else you won or lost, for you everything is lost, eternity does not acknowledge you, it never knew you, or, still more dreadful, it knows you as you are known, it manacles you to yourself in despair! ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#eternity #glory #death

Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, perfectly designed for its purpose, perfectly functional. Think of the grand glory of an oak tree. God’s intention when He made the acorn was the oak tree. His intention for us is ‘… the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.’ Many deaths must go into our reaching that measure, many letting-goes. When you look at the oak tree, you don’t feel that the loss’ of the acorn is a very great loss. The more you perceive God’s purpose in your life, the less terrible the losses seem. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#christian #glory #god #god-s-will #inspirational

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#common #glory #holy #indeed #into

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#buy #dead #easy #eternal #field