#glory

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God. ↗

— Brother Yun

#weaknesses #change

It was the hour of prayer. Black-beetles exploded against the walls like crackers. More than a dozen crawled over the tiles with injured wings. It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy — a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all. He knew. ↗

— Graham Greene

#power-glory #love

To bend, sometimes it's more important to care about somebody than to obey the letter of a rule. ↗

— Jean Westin

#love

If you feel that love isn't all it's cracked up to be, then you've never truly possessed it. For true love is the most desirable treasure in existence. It is a glory worth any sacrifice. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#love #richelle #richelle-goodrich #true-love #love

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory. ↗

— William Dunbar

#glory #here #our #transitory #vain

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#glory #motherhood #pay #price

Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#days #dramatic #first #glory #going

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.] ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#fortitude #glory #man #strength #faith

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#authors #chief #every #glory #people

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#another #bay #because #did #glory