Thrones quotes
216 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne."
"Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne"
"Im sitting in a chair but in the future its a throne."
"The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods."
"A Lannister always pays his debts."
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"The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening."
"For the night is dark and full of terrors."
"The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of...every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law."
"That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God."
"Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?"
"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."
"Don’t run to the phone, run to the throne."
"A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep."
"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."
"I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one."
"I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity."
"Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground."
"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."
"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."
"It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other."
"A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress."
"If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls."
"Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used against you"
"The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that."
