Thrones Quotes - Page 2

Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.

A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!

All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.

I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.

Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. Who knows?

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.

Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.

Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.

Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne

One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.

There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.