Crowns Quotes - Page 26

• Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

  Ben Jonson

  Mind, Virtue, Enough

  The Underwood,'An Ode to Himself' (published 1640).

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• God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Fire, People, Ordinary

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year”, p.15, Destiny Image Publishers

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• When it comes to Christ, you've got to do the same. Call him crazy, or crown him as king. Dismiss him as a fraud, or declare him to be God. Walk away from him, or bow before him, but don't play games with him.

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

  Max Lucado (2012). “Next Door Savior: Near Enough to Touch, Strong Enough to Trust”, p.126, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this world only two years after Kasparov.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fate, Years, Two

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• Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Art, Children, Literature

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873”, Lulu.com

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• Believing that what you do not know cannot exist is the crown of ignorance.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• When you are subjected to the malicious and furious violence of the passions, and to the harassments of the Devil, during the fulfillment of various works for God, accept these sufferings as sufferings for the name of Christ, and rejoice in your sufferings, thanking God; for the Devil is preparing you, without knowing it himself, the most shining crowns from the Lord.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Passion, Knowing

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• Grace comes immediately to meet some of those who strive, giving them assurance of the earnest of their inheritance (cf. Eph. 1:14), letting them taste the promised prizes, as if stretching out a loving hand to welcome them and anointing them for further struggles. With others, however, grace waits for the end of the struggle, and prepares for them the crown of patience as well. As one of the God-bearing Fathers says, 'Some receive holy rewards before their labours, some during labours, and some when they depart' (St. John Climacus).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Father, Struggle

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• You've got to be centered on Christ. It's a work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit forms Jesus within us. No cross? No crown. No pain? No gain. No way around it - if there was a shortcut, I'd know it and I'd tell ya.

  John Corapi

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• IF YOU APPROACH THE WORLD WITH THE APRON OF A SERVANT,THEN YOU ARE ALLOWED TO GO PLACES THAT YOU CAN'T GO IF YOU APPROACH IT WITH THE CROWN OF A KING

  Jon Foreman

  Kings, World, Aprons

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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

  Want, Thorns, Christ

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• Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we’re doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.

  Ann Romney

  Mom, Daughter, Motherhood

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• To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, exhausted, hoaxed and robbed; then, upon the slightest resistance, at the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, annoyed, hunted down, pulled about, beaten, disarmed, bound, imprisoned, shot, judged, condemned, banished, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and, to crown all, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Government, Names, Annoyed

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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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• The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow though it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.

  William Pitt

  Kings, Rain, Blow

  Speech in House of Commons, ca. March 1763 See Coke 1; Coke 8; Otis 2

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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, Safe

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• All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dead, for they more lively rot. Even virtue is no longer such if it be stagnant. A man's life should be constantly as fresh as this river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rivers, Water

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.93, Xist Publishing

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• Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes.

  Lord Byron

  Passion, Pique, Seduction

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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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, Hardship, Ears

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• When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.

  Richard Cecil

  Motivation, Inspiration, Men

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• By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

  George Bancroft

  Respect, Hair, Envy

  George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.75

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• Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.

  John Gay

  Ostriches, Nodding, Gains

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.219

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• A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.

  Lord Byron

  Dirty, Eye, Sight

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• Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

  Lord Byron

  Passion, Years, Leader

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• A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

  Francis Bacon

  Kings, Knowledge, Thinking

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.590

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