O may the grace of God enable me to live a less unprofitable life, using my faculties more to God’s glory and walking by faith and bringing forth fruit abundantly.
—William Wilberforce
O how out I to strive to live to God’s glory, having been hitherto so unprofitable a servant.
—William Wilberforce
How wonderful that a private man should have such an influence on the temporal and eternal happiness of millions; literally, millions on millions yet unborn! O God, make me more earnest for Thy glory; and may I act more from real love and gratitude to my redeeming Lord.
—William Wilberforce
We must believe that God is love & that, being love, He cannot harm us but must ever do us good. Then we must throw ourselves before Him & pray with boldness for whatever we know our good & His glory require, and the cost is no object!
—AW Tozer
A theologian is one who in a real sense is a scholar taught by God, who speaks of God, about God, and for the sake of the glory of God’s name.
—Herman Bavinck
Blessed be thy name for ever, that thou art God, and that thou wilt glorify thyself. O that the whole world might glorify thee! O let these poor people be brought to know thee, and love thee, for the glory of thy dear ever-blessed name!
—David Brainerd
Oh, how I longed to be with Christ, to be employed in the glorious work of angels, and with an angel’s freedom, vigour, and delight! And yet how willing was I to stay awhile on earth, that I might do something, if the Lord pleased, for his interest in the world!
—David Brainerd
O that I could begin this year with God, and spend the whole of it to his glory, either in life or death!
—David Brainerd
My soul was this day, at turns, sweetly set on God: I longed to be with him, that I might behold his glory.
—David Brainerd
Lord, if it be most for thy glory, let me proceed in it; but if thou seest that it will in any wise hinder my usefulness in thy cause, oh prevent my proceeding…all I want, respecting this world, is such circumstances as may best capacitate me to do service for God in the world.
—David Brainerd
O that God would make me more lively and vigorous in grace, for his own glory!
—David Brainerd
It was not persecutions and prisons, but worldliness and wantonness that poisoned the church: neither was it the earthly glory of its professors, but the blood of its martyrs that was the seed of the church.
—John Flavel
If God be a God of so much mercy, how can I abuse so good a God? Shall I take so glorious an attribute as the mercy of God is and abuse it unto sin?
—John Flavel
Your soul shall shortly stand before the face of God and have the immediate emanations and beamings forth of His glory upon it.
—John Flavel
Your body must be refined and cast into a new mold, else that new wine of heavenly glory would break it…. Who would not be willing to die for a full sight and enjoyment of God?
—John Flavel
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror. – C.S. Lewis
“We dwell in a temple of providence and grace where everything speaks of his glory.”
He parted with the greatest glory, he underwent the greatest misery, he doth the greatest works that ever were, because he loves his spouse, – because he values believers.
—John Owen
The glory of the atonement is not that there’s a change in us, rather it’s that there’s a change in the way God deals with us.
—J. Gresham Machen
“He wore my crown, the crown of thorns;
I wear his crown, the crown of glory.”
— Charles Spurgeon
To him alone, from whom every good and perfect gift cometh, be all the thanks and glory.
—George Whitefield
He delivers us out of prison, and lifts us off from the dunghill, and he sets us among princes, and causes us to inherit the throne of glory.
—Jonathan Edwards
Oh that we may suffer only as christians, and then the spirit of CHRIST and of glory will rest upon us.
—George Whitefield
God hath set him forth to declare his righteousness for the forgiveness of sin; he hath made way in him for ever to exalt the glory of his pardoning mercy to sinners.
—John Owen
The soul sees in Christ a way to peace with God, and a way by which the law may be answered, and justice satisfied, and yet he may escape; a wonderful way indeed, but yet a certain and a glorious one.
—Jonathan Edwards
The glory and honor of God requires that sometimes there should be tokens of his displeasure against the sins of men here in this world.
—Jonathan Edwards
God’s glory is more precious to him than men’s lives.
—Jeremiah Burroughs