Crowns Quotes - Page 25

• The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Hope, Taken, Hands

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• Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

  John Ruskin

  Queens, Husband, Son

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• God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.

  Thomas Brooks

  Grace, Mercy, Goodness

  Thomas Brooks (1814). “Apples of Gold for Young Men and Women: and a Crown of Glory for Old Men and Women. Or, The Happiness of Being Good Betimes: and the Honour of Being an Old Disciple ...: Also, The Young Man's Objections Answered, and the Old Man's Doubts Resolved”, p.32

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• Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous step backwards--a step that has been responsible for more human misery than any other idea in known history.

  Isaac Bonewits

  Ideas, Facts, Steps

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• As someone has said, we either crucify or crown the Lord Jesus by our lives.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Jesus, Our Lives

  "Hebrews".

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• Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.

  Stephen Charnock

  Happiness, Death, Christian

  "Christ Our Passover".

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• Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.

  Phillips Brooks

  Fighting, Winning, Live Your Life

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• That night, I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me, a Child of Faith. Then she came to me holding two crowns, one white, the other red. She asked me if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white one meant that I should persevere in purity, and the red that I should become a martyr. I said that I would accept them both.

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Mother, Children, Night

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• I am glad that the Crown have proved that I am the leader of the Half-breeds in the North-West. I will perhaps be one day acknowledged as more than a leader of the Half-breeds, and if I am I will have an opportunity of being acknowledged as a leader of good in this great country.

  Louis Riel

  Country, Opportunity, Leader

  Louis Riel (1886). “The Queen Vs. Louis Riel: Accused and Convicted of the Crime of High Treason. Report of Trial at Regina.--Appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench, Manitoba.--Appeal to the Privy Council, England.--Petition for Medical Examination of the Convict.--List of Petitions for Commutation of Sentence, Ottawa”

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• I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Hero, People, Different

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• I do not really know if it is a gain to exchange the crown of martrydom with two or three years of life in freedom. But I leave the good Lord to decide.

  Pavel Peter Gojdic

  Years, Two, Suffering

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• Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.

  John Donne

  Hair, Heaven, Soul

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Funeral'

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• There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Laughter, Eye

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2007). “The Brownings' Correspondence: September 1849-January 1851, letters 2813-2900”

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• Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Happiness, Men, Inner Peace

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2384, Manonmani Publishers

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• Ah! what is love! It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king, And sweeter too; For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown.

  Robert Greene

  Love, Sweet, Kings

  'The Shepherd's Wife's Song' (1590)

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• Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves.

  Elizabeth I

  Love, Glory, Raised

  The Golden Speech, 1601, in 'The Journals of All the Parliaments During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth'... Collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1682) p. 659

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• May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.

  Cyprian

  Christian, White, Catholic

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• I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal.

  James V. Schall

  Couple, Plato, Book

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• Amid the cheering of the crowds, he hardly heard his master's voice, but he saw the familiar head and shoulders, and the bright flag he was waving. He raced toward the seven-foot fence; without apparent effort he rose in the air and cleared the top with a good hand-breadth to spare; then dashed up to his master that he loved, and gamboled there and licked his hand in heart-full joy. Again the victor's crown was his, and the master, a man of dogs, caressed the head of shining black with the jewel eyes of gold.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Friendship, Dog, Cheer

  Ernest Thompson Seton (1945). “Santana: The Hero Dog of France”, Los Angeles : Phoenix Press

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• KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kings, America, Males

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.142, University of Georgia Press

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• But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him, you desire to put many crowns upon His head, and this you can best do by winning souls for Him. These are the spoils that He covets, these are the trophies for which He fights, these are the jewels that shall be His best adornment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Fighting, Winning

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• Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Adversity

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• Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; . . .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Power, Feet, Desert

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Forever, Noble, Earth

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

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• As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Everyday, Let It Go, Pennies

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 33, 1799.

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