
— Báb Iranian prophet; founder of the religion Bábism; venerated in the Bahá'í Faith 1819 - 1850
V, 8
The Persian Bayán
Variant: He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
Source: Don't Waste Your Life
— Báb Iranian prophet; founder of the religion Bábism; venerated in the Bahá'í Faith 1819 - 1850
V, 8
The Persian Bayán
— William Penn English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania 1644 - 1718
The Preface
Fruits of Solitude (1682)
Context: There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of Time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this World. Time is what we want most, but what, alas! we use worst; and for which God will certainly most strictly reckon with us, when Time shall be no more.
— Frederick Douglass American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman 1818 - 1895
As quoted in The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass (2009), by Maurice S. Lee, Cambridge University Press, p. 70
„What comes to mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.“
— Aiden Wilson Tozer American missionary 1897 - 1963
The Knowledge of the Holy (1978)
— Robert E. Howard American author 1906 - 1936
From a letter to Harold Preece (c. December 1928)
Letters
Context: I could name all day, those women I deem great in Greece alone and the records would scarcely be complete. And what of Joan of Arc and Emma Goldman? Kate Richards O’Hare and Sarah Bernhardt? Katherine the Great and Elizabeth Barrett Browning? H. D. and Sara Teasdale? Isibella of Spain who pawned her gems that Columbus might sail, and Edna St. Vincent Millay? And that queen, Marie, I think her name was, of some small province - Hungary I believe - who fought Prussia and Russia so long and so bitterly. And Rome – oh, the list is endless there, also - most of them were glorified harlots but better be a glorified harlot than a drab and moral drone, such as the text books teach us woman should be. Woman have always been the inspiration of men, and just as there are thousands of unknown great ones among men, there have been countless women whose names have never been blazoned across the stars, but who have inspired men on to glory. And as for their fickleness – as long as men write the literature of the world, they will rant about the unfaithfulness of the fair sex, forgetting their own infidelities. Men are as fickle as women. Women have been kept in servitude so long that if they lack in discernment and intellect it is scarcely their fault.
„Man’s true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.“
— Arnold J. Toynbee British historian, author of A Study of History 1889 - 1975
The source of this quotation (with "chief" in place of "true") is the Westminster Shorter Catechism, http://www.reformed.org/documents/wsc/index.html?_top=http://www.reformed.org/documents/WSC.html.
As quoted in Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2006768?q=Arnold+Toynbee&p=par
— Herbert Read English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art 1893 - 1968
The Meaning of Art, London : Faber & Faber, 1931
Other Quotes
— Henry Edward Manning English Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal 1808 - 1892
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 456.
„God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.“
— Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter and actress 1946
— James Alison Christian theologian, priest 1959
Source: Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001), "Jesus' fraternal relocation of God", p. 81.
— Paul P. Enns American theologian 1937
Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 15
— Alexander Maclaren British minister 1826 - 1910
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 82.
— Jack T. Chick Christian comics writer 1924 - 2016
Chick tracts, " And It Was Good! http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1089/1089_01.asp" (2015)
„Greatest fools are oft most satisfied.“
— Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux French poet and critic 1636 - 1711
Le plus fou souvent est le plus satisfait.
Satire 4, l. 128
Satires (1716)
— John Ross Macduff Scottish religious writer 1818 - 1895
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 283.