Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." (1794)]
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Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.
If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.
Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.
Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come.
Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.
Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.
Detective Inspector Eccles sighed. He may ordinarily have met his sigh with the question of why the newly appointed Superintendent Dickinson was turning up to this late hour crime scene, he may also ordinarily question why his superior officer was dressed as Julius Caesar, in full tunic and green leafy wreath, yet ever since the new and youngest-ever-appointed superintendent had arrived at the Met it had been all too clear he was an officer who didn__ quite do things by the eBook.
It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.
Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him
Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.
he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to __inety k_ and __ quarter of a mill_, and every sentence was angled, like a mirror, to show him in the best possible light: his cleverness, his quick thinking, his besting of slower, stupider yet more senior colleagues...
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the
So a while back I spent a night in jail. Now, as for exactly what landed me there, I__ be so delighted to never have to go into any of the details regarding that. Besides, other people__ theories are so much more exotic and exciting than the reality. I've heard everything from 'attempted terrorism' to 'indecent public condescension.
How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity
Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.
Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory