#glory

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#glory #once #worth

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#blossom #breathed #breezes #eye #fragrance

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. ↗

— Pam Brown

#come #ever #every #glory #last

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

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#carrier #certainly #glory #off #pilot

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory! ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#inspiration #new-day #beauty

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? ↗

— Lord Byron

#grave #steps #tracks #who

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#character #colours #courage #emerge #friends

Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#bend #every #give #glory #god

The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection. ↗

— John Piper

#glory-of-god #beauty