True Glory

Ἡ κόλαξ κομπαγωγία, ἡ ξηρὰ καὶ ἄψυχος ἔπαρσις, ἡ κενὴ καὶ ἐπίγειος δόξα, ἀρθήτω ἀφ' ἡμῶν. Ὁ γὰρ τῶν ἀρετῶν καὶ δοτὴρ καὶ ταμίας ὑπογραμμὸν ἡμῖν καταλιμπάνων, φησί· Δόξαν παρ' ἀνθρώπων οὐ ζητῶ. Θεοῦ γάρ ἐστι δόσις ἡ δόξα· εἰ καὶ οἱ ποιηταὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων τῇ ἐνταῦθα σκιᾷ τὴν κλῆσιν ἐκείνην ἐπίθηκαν. Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβίον Α', Ἐπιστολὴ ΤΟΔ' Ὠριωνι Source: Migne PG 78.393d

The puffing up of flatters and dry and soulless pomp and empty and worldly glory, let us cast from us. For He who gives and guards the virtues left an example for us, using these words: 'I do not seek glory from men.' 1 For glory is the gift of God, even if the makers of words in this present shadow have imposed upon it. Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 1, Letter 374, To Orion 1 Jn 13.50