Crown Of Thorns Quotes

• How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

  Elizabeth of Hungary

  God, Spiritual, Humility

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• They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Adversity, Rose

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• The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Hatred, Crowns

  Twitter post from Feb 23, 2017

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• The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

  Charles Williams

  Strong, Hands, Crowns

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• A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rose, Crowns, Thorns

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• To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Crowns, Thorns, Adages

  Song: Sit Down Young Stranger

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• The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Jesus, Crowns, Earth

  Elisabeth Elliot (1988). “Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Forever, Noble, Crowns

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.384, Lulu.com

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• You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Crowns, Want, Thorns

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• Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

  Pablo Neruda

  Passion, Soul, Sorrow

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• I wear this crown of thorns
  Upon my liar's chair
  Full of broken thoughts
  I cannot repair
  Beneath the stains of time
  The feelings disappear
  You are someone else
  I am still right here
  What have I become
  My sweetest friend?

  Trent Reznor

  Liars, Sadness, Broken

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• How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such vanities, flying to the Saviour's Cross, and clasping His Crown of thorns to your heart, so that these little foxes may not spoil your vines. Beware of entering into any manner of treaty with the Enemy; do not delude yourself by listening to him while intending to reject him.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Vanity, Attachment

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.249, Catholic Way Publishing

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• You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Government, Gold, Bankers

  Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896. In an earlier speech in the House of Representatives, 22 Dec. 1894, Bryan had said: "I shall not help crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. I shall not aid in pressing down upon the bleeding brow of labor this crown of thorns."

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• Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Crowns, Pieces

  In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1973) vol. 2, ch. 13

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• Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Smirk, Crowns

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• In Christ we see the strength of achievement, and the strength of endurance. He moved with a calm majesty, like the sun. The bloody sweat, and the crown of thorns, and the cross, were full in His eyes; but He was obedient unto death. In His perfect self-sacrifice we see the perfection of strength; in the love that prompted it we see the perfection of beauty. This combination of self-sacrifice and love must be commenced in every Christian; and when it shall be in its spirit complete in him, then will he also be perfect in strength and beauty.

  Mark Hopkins

  Christian, Eye, Sacrifice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.61, 1895.

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• Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.

  J. G. Holland

  Fashion, America, Public Opinion

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• If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Mean, Age, Crowns

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• Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

  Martha Ostenso

  Idols, Religion, Thorns

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• No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hurt, Pain, Cities

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• When in the wondrous realms above Our Saviour had been called upon, To save our world of sin by love, He said, "Thy will, O Lord, be done.' The Kings of kings left worlds of light, Became the meek and lowly one; In brightest day or darkest night He said, "Thy will, O Lord, be done." No crown of thorns, no cruel cross Could make our great Redeemer shun. He counted his own will but loss, And said, "Thy will, O Lord, be done." We take the bread and cup this day, In memory of the Sinless One, And pray for strength, That we may say, As he, "Thy will, O Lord, be done."

  Frank I. Kooyman

  Kings, Memories, Loss

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• Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice; He was betrayed, that thou mightest go free; was apprehended, that thou mightest escape; He was condemned, that thou mightest be justified; and was killed, that thou mightest live; He wore a crown of thorns, that thou mightest wear a crown of glory; and was nailed to the cross, with His arms wide open, to show with what freeness all His merits shall be bestowed on the coming soul; and how heartily He will receive it into His bosom?

  John Bunyan

  Easter, Justice, Laughing

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.805, Delphi Classics

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• You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Gold, Thorns, Bankers

  Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896. In an earlier speech in the House of Representatives, 22 Dec. 1894, Bryan had said: "I shall not help crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. I shall not aid in pressing down upon the bleeding brow of labor this crown of thorns."

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• Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Crowns, Hardship

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• Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes, the failed intention of a masterful ally. But, nevertheless, as they burden you with a vexing brand of love, they become nothing more than the kiss of Judas, pressing a crown of thorns into your flesh.

  Addison Webster Moore

  Kissing, Duplicity, Enemy

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