I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.
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.
Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.
Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.
Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee
If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.
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.