“How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter.” InspirationalHumansLooksMatterMomentsStrangeBuddhismGloryConsciousSilentReincarnation Author:Frederick Lenz
“The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.” InspirationalSaidSometimesLordAliveGloryDance Author:Mahalia Jackson
“Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.” InspirationalActionLyingGoalGloryReachingTreatment Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“The Lord loves all people, but He loves those who seek Him even more. To his chosen ones the Lord gives such great grace that for love they forsake the whole earth, the whole world, and their souls burn with desire that all people might be saved and see the glory of the Lord.” PeopleWorldInspirationalGivingSoulWholeMightEarthChristianDesireReligiousLordGraceGlorySavedWhole WorldChosenOrthodoxForsakeChosen One Author:Silouan the Athonite
“Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse.” InspirationalChristianEvilReligiousGloryOrthodoxAvariceMisuseGluttonyChildbearing Author:Maximus the Confessor
“The Lord wants us to love one another. Here is freedom: in love for God and neighbor. In this freedom, there is equality. In earthly orders, there may not be equality, but this is not important for the soul. Not everyone can be a king, not everyone a patriarch or a boss. But in any position it is possible to love God and to please Him, and only this is important. And whoever loves God more on earth will be in greater glory in His Kingdom.” WantInspirationalMayImportantSoulEarthChristianOrderReligiousLordGreaterPositionKingsPleaseGloryNeighborKingdomsGod LoveOrthodoxBossWant ULove One AnotherPatriarch Author:Silouan the Athonite
“A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of it: for example, for food, or for women, or for riches, or for worldly glory, or any other sensible thing; or for the sake of such things, as in a senseless hatred for someone on account of the things mentioned above.” InspirationalSoulChristianPassionReligiousExampleMovementMaterialsGloryHatredAccountsSakeRichesOrthodoxSensibleIrrationalWorldlyMaterial ThingsBlindfolds Author:Maximus the Confessor
“Do not seek earthly glory in any matter, for it is extinguished for him who loves it. In its time it blows on a man like a strong wind, and then quickly, taking from him the fruits of his good works, it goes away from him, laughing at his foolishness.” MenInspirationalMatterChristianStrongReligiousLaughingWindGloryFruitBlowOrthodoxWorking ItGood WorkFoolishnessStrong Winds Author:Gennadius of Constantinople
“To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat is in being a link in the longest possible chain of ancestors. The glory of the aristocrat of the spirit is in having no ancestors - or having as few as possible. If an artist is his own ancestor, if he has only descendents, he enters history as a genius; if he has few ancestors, or is related to them distantly, he enters history as a talent.” IfsInspirationalArtSpiritArtistLiteratureTalentSourceGeniusGloryOppositesChainsRelatedLinksAncestorNobilityAristocracy Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.” InspirationalLittlesDreamPastSufferingTurnsEvilHeavenReligiousSinPleasureKnowingGloryConsequenceLet MeSpreadMortalsBlissGood And EvilTemporaryNot KnowingAgonyBackwardsDamnationRetrospectiveGreat Divorce Author:C. S. Lewis
“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.” MenInspirationalScienceNaturalAbilityEducationLearningVirtueGloryRaisedAddictionNatural Ability Author:Marcus Aurelius