Throne Quotes - page 2

And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father - that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for - if you will receive it - when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven. (Charles Kingsley)
By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes his glory to pass before the soul that seeks him, you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort, than by a day or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most studious perusal of many folios. View quote
John Newton
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. View quote
Omar Khayyám
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. View quote
Walter Bagehot
At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen. View quote
Isaac Leib Peretz
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. View quote
Maximilien Robespierre
Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual. View quote
Ignatius of Loyola
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water. View quote
William Shakespeare
Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us. (Pierre Corneille)
When I stand before the throne of God, I shall be judged innocent. View quote
Klaus Barbie
God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them when faith presents them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book. View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne. View quote
Meg Cabot
Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say. View quote
Shannon Hale
We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
Don't run to the phone, run to the throne. View quote
Joyce Meyer
Come to me all who are weary and heavy burden.." Go to the throne, not the phone. The people on the other end aren't qualified to fix your problems, they don't know what they're doing either!!! ~ -Joyce Meyers. View quote
Joyce Meyer
No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on... I will be sitting on it. View quote
Tite Kubo
We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. View quote
James Buchan
Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now. (Mark Bittman)
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. View quote
Roland Allen
God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace. View quote
William Gurnall
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having. View quote
Kiefer Sutherland