“If God’s glory be declared and made manifest, even by the miseries which some creatures sustain, dare you therefore accuse God of cruelty? Consider your bold foolishness, and repent your blasphemies before vengeance strike.”— John Knox, amazon.com
“When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.”— Harriet Tubman, harriet-tubman.org
“Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than…”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”— Oliver Goldsmith, amazon.com
“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Every American is eaten up with longing to rise, but hardly any of them seem to entertain very great hopes or aim very high. All are constantly bent on gaining property, reputation and power, but few conceive of such thing on a grand scale...They are much more in love with success than with glory.”— Alexis de Tocqueville, amazon.com
“My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.”— Craig Ferguson, amazon.com