Glory of God

“Only a sight of His glory, and nothing else, will truly satisfy God's people.”

“This is that which brings salvation, when we shall see that God has glorified all his properties in a way of doing us good.”

“Because he is an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting, self-sufficient, and all-sufficient being, the fountain and author of all being and good, therefore he is to be worshipped.”

“God forgive me my unthankfulness and unworthiness of so great glory.”

“We should desire to see God honored upon the earth where He has been dishonored.”

“The spirit of man never riseth to its original glory, till it be carried up on the wings of faith and love to its original copy.”

“And man must acknowledge the wisdom and goodness of his Creator, and act in subserviency to his glory, as other creatures act in subserviency to his good.”

“He created and made all things, and he made them all by Jesus Christ, and therefore he shall have the first-fruits of every one, and of every sort of thing.”

“We have our grace and glory by measure, but Christ had the Spirit without measure.”

“His perfections are revealed to us as the highest knowledge; they are all pledged for our protection, blessedness, and glory.”

“The robes of glory will be the everlasting ornaments of meek and quiet spirits.”

“Sinners may plead for grace upon the account of God's glory, viz., the glory God will have by it.”

“The case in perseverance is not how faithful we are, but how faithful God is, who ‘guides us here with his counsel in all things, and afterwards receiveth us into glory,’ Ps.”

“Now they are the sons of God; but it appeareth not in this world what they shall be; and if they be now such, whilst black, what when in heaven, when Christ is made glorious in them?”

“But Christ, after he was 'manifest in the flesh,' and had done the work here that he had to do, he was 'received up to glory;' that is, all baseness was laid aside.”

“Wave now and ever the glorious banner--"Christ is all." Thus dwell within the Camp, and you will reign upon the throne.”

“This is Christ's prayer, that the saints may be with him in his kingdom, and be bespangled with some of the beams of his glory.”

“The glory, saith he, that the law hath is no glory, in comparison of that which excelleth; it is the same word which is translated here ‘exceeding.’ Take all created powers, my brethren, and they are nothing to God.”

“The more any man in holiness resembles God on earth, the greater and the larger portion of glory that man shall have when he comes to heaven.”

“Here lies the weight of God's honour, and the salvation of an elect world; and this required no less solid a bottom than the testimony of truth itself.”

“Here is a worth of the Lord indeed, bright and glorious in the shining beauty of his faith, set out unto us in the full expressions of it by the Holy Ghost himself.”

“It is of mercy that we still live and have opportunities of glorifying God for that free grace by which we live, and for that loving-kindness which endures forever.”

“There is no work that God has made—the sun, moon, stars, and all the world—in which so much of the glory of God appears as in a man who lives quietly in the midst of adversity.”

“How little there is of simple zeal for the glory of the name of Jesus!”

“God's holiness is infinite, it is so super-eminent and so superexcellent that it can neither be limited, nor lessened, nor increased.”

“The more mature a Christian becomes, however, the more he will engage himself from the superior to the inferior; that is, love for the glory of God motivates him to do everything which serves to that end.”

“The Lord thundered from heaven; the Most High gave a mighty shout.”

“How strong then are his obligations to walk worthy of God, who has called him to his kingdom and glory!”

“In the midst of all the fires round about their ears, they glorified God; some read it ‘in the valley,’ in the lowest condition they could be in.”

“The honor of God must be the principal end of every good work.”

“For holiness, God is a incomparable; there are none to be compared with him, neither are there any among angels or among men, yes, or among the gods, who are like unto him.”

“The Lord intends to glorify Himself so much in the church and though I dare not tell you the time, yet there’s nothing to the contrary that it’s possible it may be in your days and that you may live to see these times.”

“It is nature that causes the one kind of nobility, but it is the grace of God, a sparkle of the divine nature, a ray of the very glory of God himself, shining into the soul, that is the cause of the other.”

“This is a kind of universalism in which we rejoice to believe; for it is predicted by Him who cannot lie, that the earth shall in those latter days be full of the glory of God.”

“And since we can see so little, we must believe the more; and by believing, give glory to God.”

“Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?”

“If Israel be not gathered, yet shall we be glorious in the eyes of the Lord.”

“If God takes away my life, then God will rather have his honor from my soul to join with angels and saints, he would rather honor himself that way than in employing me any further in this world.”

“Oh, the infinite wisdom and power of God—which has pardoned, washed, sanctified, and cleansed such guilty, filthy, and polluted souls!”

“Job scraping on the dunghill, and Jeremiah sticking in the mire in the dungeon, yet they had more glory and beauty on them, then the great ones of the earth when they sat on their thrones.”

“If he made thee to differ from others in the enjoyment of his mercy, do thou also differ from others in the sounding of his praise.”

“Let the love of Jesus compel you to live a life pleasing to Him, in order to glorify Him here, and patiently wait until He takes you to be eternally with Himself.”

“I fill heaven and earth; not a part of me fills one place and another part of me fills another, but I, God, fill heaven and earth, I am whole God filling the heaven and whole God filling the earth.”

“He made a world, and how glorious is it! but if he make a heaven, think with yourselves what a heaven it will be.”

“In him are the fulness of all riches, the treasures of all wisdom and knowledge.”

“It is that which is the principle of eternal life, wherever it is, it is that which will grow up to eternal glory.”

“Believer, what will it be to gaze on the manifested beauty of Him, who is so altogether lovely!”

“For this cause I write to you, that my sufferings may glorify my royal King, and edify His Church in Ireland.”

“The infinitude of His love is shown in the gift of His dear Son to accomplish salvation, to endure our curse, to bring us safely to the heaven of heavens, to present us faultless before the presence of His glory.”

“Though it is true, whatsoever is in God is God himself— yet we conceiving of God according to our manner of speaking, there is something of God that appears most excellent and glorious.”

“In a word, to be a God is to be allsufficient to any; to be sole sufficient, and to be self-sufficient.”

“And this, if it lies upon the heart as it should is a sad consideration to humble the proudest heart in the world; to think that thou livest, and God has no glory by thee, though this be the End for which God made the world.”

“May they forever dwell beneath Your rays, and, as reflecting mirrors, scatter radiance around!”

“Again, the end of a man’s life, and of all his actions, is to serve God, in serving of man, and by serving of man, to serve God.”

“And therefore the Lord says, “Let him that rejoiceth, rejoice in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me.”

“Again, as they spring from the love of God, so they tend to the honour of God; for what comes from heaven, goes to heaven back again.”

“In a word, to be a God is to be all-sufficient to any; to be sole sufficient, and to be self-sufficient.”

“It is a great wonder, that the whole frame of nature is not swallowed up by the glory of his majesty.”

“When we define God to be infinite, however, we do so in the literal sense of the word, thereby conveying that His Being is truly without any parameters or limitations.”

“It is impossible, as we have remarked, to study the character and trace the history of God's Church, and not know more of the wisdom, power, and love of God.”

“God had given Jesus Christ, by choosing him to the union with our nature, an infinite glory.”

“We must therefore labor to be new creatures, changed in mind and heart, for an unholy person cannot truly desire the glory of God.”

“And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.”

“What if thou shouldst see God in his infinite glory, majesty, holiness, and justice?”

“God himself installs them into their honor and sets the royal crown upon their head.”

“If God be infinite and eternal, he merits an honour and comportment from his creatures suited to the unlimited perfection of his nature, and the duration of his being.”

“Open each eye to see the beauty, riches, blessedness, and glory of God's heritage.”

“The whole problem of redemption was therefore beyond the solution of a finite mind.”

“Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name.”

“Christ will have, not only every knee to bow, but every tongue to confess his name.”

“Let us be content to decrease, that he may increase, as John did; and, like the moon, the nearer we come to this sun, the more we should, yea we shall, wane; it is our glory so to do.”

“Man is lord of the creation; nothing below him can be fit for his converse, nothing above him ofiers itself to his converse but God.”

“He doth not say he hath called us into grace only, or unto his favour, but ‘into glory,’ and ‘eternal glory;’ that is, by calling he estates us into the whole and full right thereof for ever.”

“This is a most admirable Scripture: Mark how God lifts up himself in his Glory, so great a God, as the Heaven is my Throne, and the Earth is my Foot-stool, where is that house that ye will build unto me?”

“What head, what heart can conceive or reckon up the duration of God, who ever was, who still is, and who ever will be!”

“Riches of grace, exceeding riches of grace, abundant grace, riches of glory, unsearchable riches of grace.”

“As you first cleanse the vessel, and then pour in the wine; so God first cleanses us by sanctification, and then pours in the wine of glory.”

“Nothing has that majesty and commanding greatness in and upon the hearts of the sons of men as has the grace of God.”

“In thy name shall they rejoice all the day; and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.”

“Secondly, it appears hence that the articles of faith, or the doctrine of the gospel, is in excellency and authority above all men and angels.”

“There is only one way to learn what things tend to the glory of God, and that is by studying the Bible, which is the revealed will of God.”

“God cannot simply let go of the ordinance which He once instituted, but much rather displays His glory in that He carries it through despite man's sin and apostasy.”

“But now a man that is eminent in the world and godly too, his grace is like a diamond on a crown that is so conspicuous before the world that the world takes much notice of them and gives glory to God for it.”

“When the glory of God appears, then all flesh, and all worldly glory, is but as grass, as the flower of the field, as a contemptible thing.”

“Such beams of majesty fall from the angels, that we are not able to bear a sight of them.”

“The name of our God.—'The God of all grace.' Not only is He the gracious God, but emphatically He is the God of grace, nay, the God of all grace.”

“To know the wonders of earth is good; to know the wonders of heaven is better and nobler still; but to know HIM who made, and who fills both earth and heaven, is more blessed, more excellent, more glorious, by far.”

“Then, with the Elders we will lay down that jeweled diadem at Jesus' feet, and He shall have all the glory, and to Him shall be all the praise!”

“God’s glory appears by this, viz. how glorious he can make creatures.”

“Our whole anxiety is, not how shall we secure the glory of Jehovah, but how shall we multiply conversions?”

“From the various orders of rational creatures He has chosen man to be the special object of his favour, and the special medium through which and by which to manifest his glory.”

“Christ Jesus Himself has purchased it for us in His blood, He has laid the foundation of it, His blood was laid out for it; He spun this thread of glory out of His own bowels.”

“The first degree of his glory was his resurrection, after his lowest abasement in the grave.”

“O the depth both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!” Rom. xi. 33.”

“And as in Canaan, the ark ascended Zion's hill amid triumphant shouts, so Jesus mounts on high.”

“The effect of this exaltation on the human nature of Christ was not to annihilate it, not to sublimate it so that it ceased to be human nature, but to glorify it, to crown it with glory and honor.”

“If men in old time were damned because they glorified him not as God, shall not they be more than damned, if more than damned can be, who glorify him not for his grace?”

“There is such a divine glory in his person, that the lustre of it darkens the sun in the firmament, that it appears to be as sackcloth and darkness.”