Puritan quotes on
Glory of God
128 quotes
“Confession of sin and repentance gives glory to God (Joshua 7:19) and sin endeavors to obstruct and hinder this.”
“God is the chief of goods, and sin is the chief of evils.”
“The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to God and work to God and talk to God, do all to His glory and praise.”
“Our redemption is founded upon the joint agreement of all three persons of the Trinity.”
“For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.”
“He who would be a faithful minister of the gospel must deny the pride of his heart, be emptied of ambition, and set himself wholly to seek the glory of God in his calling.”
“The whole world is a great vast library, and every creature in it a several book, wherein he that runs may read the power, and goodness, and infinite perfections of its Maker.”
“The vessels of mercy shall swim in an ocean of glory.”
“Those who have never seen the sun are amazed at a candle. Likewise, those who have never known the blessed God are fond of pitiful things on earth.”
“But in the work of redemption all His perfections and excellencies shine forth in their greatest glory.”
“Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.”
“O what a blessed day that will be when I shall stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!”
“To glorify God is to have God-admiring thoughts; to esteem him most excellent, and search for diamonds in this rock only.”
“The creation is the heathen man's Bible, the ploughman's primer, and the traveler's perspective glass, through which he receives a representation of the infinite excellencies which are in God.”
“Afflictions add to the saints' glory. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles.”
“Sin robs God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, and the soul of its happiness.”
“God's glory is more worth than heaven, and more worth than the salvation of all men's souls.”
“Great was the work of creation, but greater was the work of redemption.”
“None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing.”
“Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.”
“You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.”
“O child of God, be more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.”
“Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.”
“God is full of love, for 'God is love.' God is full of goodness; the very name 'God' is short for 'good.”
“Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.”
“A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.”
“Holiness in angels and saints is but a quality, but in God it is His essence.”
“It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.”
“Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was.”
“The principal science is Theology. Theology is the science of living blessedly forever. Blessed life consists in the knowledge of God.”
