Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
Interpretation
Grace represents the struggle towards achieving glory, while glory signifies the victory of that struggle.
This quote by Thomas Brooks highlights the relationship between grace and glory, suggesting that they are closely intertwined. Grace can be seen as the effort and process we experience while striving for greatness, akin to a seed that needs nurturing, whereas glory represents the culmination of that effort, like a flower that blooms as a result of that nurturing. The quote emphasizes that both concepts are essential, where grace prepares us for glory, and glory validates the grace we have exhibited.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth and achievement.
Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.
He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.
Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing in a Saviour. It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith.
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.
When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.
"There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts." "Why can't we all move forward together?" "Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow." "Who leads?" "The men who must... driven men, compelled men." "Freak men." "You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory."
I work a lot with blind people in my spare time outside of Unilever, and I count my blessings every day.
Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
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