Sentence examples for earthly glory from inspiring English sources

But he is humble and has few expectations of earthly glory.

He warns Dante of the emptiness of earthly glory, the transitory and worthless nature of fame.

The New Yorker, June 28 , 1993P. 60 Earthly glory lasts, of course.

By Benjamin Ivry The New Yorker, June 28 , 1993P. 60 Earthly glory lasts, of course.

The subject matter of the carvings is taken principally from the Hindu epics, but there are also many scenes representing Suryavarman's earthly glory.

Along with the Koranic inscription, it carries the image of a little scarlet cup, emblem of Qawsun's earthly glory, and a wreath of flowers fragrant from paradise, where he doubtless hoped to reside.

Especially if you consider the billions of people who have quietly, with no expectations of earthly or heavenly glory, sacrificed their lives for others.

It takes one kind of bravery to endure extreme discomfort and risk life for earthly, scientific or celestial glory, but quite another to do so for honor alone.

Geology, as even geologists will tell you, is not normally the sexiest of disciplines; it hunkers down with earthly stuff while the glory accrues to the human and the cosmic — to genetics, neuroscience, physics.

He was, perhaps, an author who aspired to earthly dignity rather than unearthly glory.

Whatever human glory (or disaster) might attend the earthly city paled in significance compared to the denouement awaiting the heavenly city.