quotes about Thrones
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A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.
-- Alan RedpathSource : Alan Redpath (2004). “The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David”, p.54, Baker Books
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Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
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I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold: Come they from cottage or come they from hall, Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all! Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin I gather them in, I gather them in!
-- Benjamin -
Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.
-- Beth Moore -
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The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
-- Bill Vaughan -
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.
-- Billy Graham -
Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.
-- Bob Beauprez -
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
-- Boris YeltsinSource : "A Democracy of Despots" by Donald Murray, (p. 8), 1995.
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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
-- Charles ChurchillSource : Charles Churchill (1772). “Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and Additions. To which is Added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with Cuts”
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Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne
-- Charles Spurgeon -
In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.
-- Charles WesleySource : Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.272, Ravenio Books
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I'm open to anything, dude. I'm open to anything. That's what I would ask the aliens. I'd be like, "Do you watch 'Game of Thrones?'"
-- Charlize Theron -
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All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne
-- Christopher LoveSource : Christopher Love (2012). “The Last Words and Letters of Christopher Love: With A Clear Vindication of His Principles and Practices”, p.142, Puritan Publications
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But I don't want your throne." "Then what do you want?" "You.
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
Like a stand of lodgepole pines in a gale Raisa's followers all went down leaving her standing alone....There's no shelter for me not from any of this. I'll stand alone the rest of my life. THE GRAY WOLF THRONE p. 163
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
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To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.
-- Cynthia Ozick -
As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.
-- Dan Brown -
I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God.
-- David Livingstone -
I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'
-- David S. GoyerSource : "David S. Goyer Explains His ‘Graphic Novel’ Approach to Renaissance Intrigue in ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.
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Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in God's presence.
-- E. W. Kenyon -
Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.
-- Ed Thigpen -
The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.54
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The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
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If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.
-- Eric Temple Bell -
I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
-- Frances FarmerSource : "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.
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Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.
-- Frances Power Cobbe -
Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1875). “Little pillows; or, Good-night thoughts for the little ones”, p.43
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Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.
-- Francis of Assisi -
Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.
-- Francis Quarles -
Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.
-- Gene SharpSource : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.6, Albert Einstein Institution
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I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
-- George R. R. Martin -
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In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.
-- George R. R. Martin -
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
-- Georges ClemenceauSource : "Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 127, 2012.
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The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.
-- Hans Arp -
All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.
-- Henry Austin DobsonSource : 'Ars Victrix'
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Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.
-- Herbert KaufmanSource : Herbert Kaufman (1910). “The Winning Fight”
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Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.
-- Holly Black -
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
-- Honore de Balzac -
If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have.
-- James BurghSource : James Burgh (1794). “The Dignity of Human Nature; or, a Brief account of the certain and established means for attaining the true end of our existence ... By J. B. (James Burgh.)”, p.31
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On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
-- Jean Racine -
If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.
-- Jerry Climer -
God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!
-- Jim Elliot -
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Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.
-- John Armstrong -
Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.
-- John Keats -
Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.
-- John L. Bates -
Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.
-- John Milton -
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Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
-- John Milton -
Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.
-- John Milton -
It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still whereon majesty and glory do reside, and God is always to be considered by us as on a throne.
-- John Owen -
Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.
-- John Ruskin -
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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
-- John Steinbeck -
All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.
-- John Wilmot -
Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.
-- Joseph AlleineSource : Joseph Alleine (2000). “An Alarm to the Unconverted”, p.21, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
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All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.
-- Joseph de Maistre -
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We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
-- Joseph de MaistreSource : Joseph De Maistre (2011). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion, and Enlightenment”, Transaction Publishers
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Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. [..] Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing. Apologize today, before remorse will do you no good. Our nation is moving forwards, and it is in your interest to respect a victorious nation.
-- Khaled MashalSource : Khaled Mashal's Address at the Al-Murabit Mosque in Damascus, 2006.
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Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.
-- King Edward VIII -
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.
-- King James I -
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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.
-- King James ISource : Speech to Parliament at Whitehall, March 21, 1609.
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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.
-- King James ISource : Speech in the Star Chamber, June 1616.
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When I stand before the throne of God, I shall be judged Innocent
-- Klaus BarbieSource : Statement at His Trial,
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I thought that what I felt for you was right," Luce said. "I loved you until it hurt me, until our love was consumed by your pride and rage. The thing you called love made me disappear. So I had to stop loving." She Paused. "Our adoration never diminished the Throne, but your love diminished me. I never meant to hurt you. I only meant to stop you from hurting me.
-- Lauren Kate -
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Cersei in Game of Thrones is quite solid and stiff.
-- Lena Headey -
It’s easy: You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail you’ll find a throne; and whatever, or whoever, is on that throne is what’s of highest value to you. On that throne is what you worship.
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I will remain on the throne until I fall off.
-- Margrethe II of DenmarkSource : "Danish Queen Celebrates Milestone". www.dailytelegraph.com.au. January 12, 2012.
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In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.
-- Maria Weston Chapman -
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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 -
And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.
-- Matthew Arnold -
I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it... "My purse is full enough," said the magus, "to keep you supplied with roast chickens." "So, so, so," I said. "We know who the power behind the throne is," and the magus laughed. "You eat more than Gen did after prison," he said. "I have more sympathy with him all the time. Are you going to finish that drumstick?" I asked. "I am. Stop staring at it.
-- Megan Whalen Turner -
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.
-- Michel de MontaigneSource : Essais bk. 3, ch. 13 (1580)
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
-- Natalie Dormer -
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace.
-- Nehemiah Adams -
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I will be calmly active, actively calm. I am a prince of peace, sitting on the throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda -
Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.
-- Peter Dinklage -
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
-- PetrarchSource : "Madalyn Aslan's Jupiter Signs: How to Improve Your Luck, Career, Health, Finances, Appearance, and Relationships Through the New Astrology". Book by Madalyn Aslan, 2003.
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Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.
-- Philip James Bailey -
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O Virgin most holy, none abounds in the knowledge of God except through thee; none, O Mother of God, obtains salvation except through thee, none receives a gift from the throne of mercy except through thee.
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The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr. -
Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.
-- Rian Johnson -
Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.
-- Richard MaddenSource : "‘Game Of Thrones’ Robb Stark Speaks: Richard Madden Addresses Shocking Developments" by Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2013.
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There are many, many angels, more than there are human beings. They stand before the throne of God and praise Him. At the same time, they are among us, with us. Angels are real. And they are here.
-- Robert L Faricy -
The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.
-- Robyn YoungSource : Robyn Young (2010). “Insurrection: Insurrection Trilogy”, p.47, Hachette UK
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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
-- Salman Rushdie -
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There are no term limits on His reign. He has always been King and He always will be King. There is no death that threatens the perpetuity of His sovereign authority. There is no usurping of power by a lesser rival to His throne. There are no coups, no revolutions (at least, none that succeed). There is no threat of impeachment. He is a King who rules eternally.
-- Sam Storms -
One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.
-- Shane Claiborne -
The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.
-- Simon Schama -
Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
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Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool.
-- Steve WinwoodSource : Song: Take It as It Comes
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Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.
-- Taki TheodoracopulosSource : Taki, Taki Theodoracopulos (1984). “Princes, Playboys & High-Class Tarts”
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Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.
-- Thomas WatsonSource : Thomas Watson, R. Armstrong (1816). “The Christian Soldier: Or, Heaven Taken by Storm, Shewing the Holy Violence a Christian is to Put Forth in the Pursuit After Glory. To which is Added: The Happiness of Drawing Near to God, and The Saint's Desire to be with Christ”, p.25
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A human encounter with holiness is devastating. It refuses to allow us to be impressed with the things of the world we’ve been chasing. It refuses to allow us to remain comfortable in our sin. It refuses to allow us to remain on the throne of our lives. And it leads us to a relationship with the only One who can perfectly love us, who can forgive all our sins, and who can make us into His likeness. Our encounter with His holiness is our devastation. And our devastation is our salvation.
-- Todd Agnew -
I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it's a throne!
-- Veronica Roth -
Text of Sermon when Edward III ascended the throne, 1 Feb. 1327. Walsingham Vox Populi, vox Dei. The voice of the people, the voice of God.
-- Walter Reynolds -
The éminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.
-- Will Self -