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.
(n.) The quality or state of being smug.
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
Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.
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
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.
Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him
His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed to the self-satisfaction of politics, which believes it has answers and insists on them.
It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.
moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.
It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.
Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly.
I flash a fake smile of my own, refraining from telling her what I'm really thinking: that it's an unwise karmic move to go around feeling superior to other mothers. Because before she knows it, her l...
In what way am I any better? She is smug. I am cynical. She is puffed-up. I am punctured. I watch her gamely finding the energy to thrash about on life's greasy surface, while I lie paralysed, croakin...
Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.