Gerard Manley Hopkins - Glory Quotes

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Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop-pail, give him glory too. He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The best ideal is the true
And other truth is none.
All glory be ascribed to
The holy Three in One.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring, everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, live.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, made for — things that give and mean to give God glory.

Gerard Manley Hopkins