ad majorem Dei gloriam
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The Reverend Gentleman seems to think that stones are stones and St. Peter's but an organized quarry instead of a crystallization of the human spirit, building ad majorem Dei gloriam.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the greatest individuals the world has known dedicated their works ad majorem Dei gloriam.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Jesuit missionary in North America had no thought of worldly profit or renown, but, with his mind fixed on eternity, he performed his task ad majorem Dei gloriam, for the greater glory of God.
From The Jesuit Missions : A chronicle of the cross in the wilderness by Marquis, Thomas Guthrie
The society designated their object by Loyola's motto—Omnia ad majorem Dei gloriam.
From Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy by Delafield, John
These had, ad majorem Dei gloriam, advanced a multitude of forced expositions.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
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