Soli Deo Gloria

Soli Deo gloria, Latin for 'glory to God alone', directs praise to God rather than to the maker of an achievement. It came to be counted among the five solae summarizing the Reformers' beliefs.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685—1750) wrote the initials S. D. G. at the end of all his church compositions. George Frideric Handel sometimes used the dedication, as in his Te Deum.