"I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith."
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"I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns."
"The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures."
"It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods."
"Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears."
"God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us."
"She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas."
"A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude.""
"The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages."
"In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness."
"The reign of imagagology begins where history ends."