1 Kings Quotes

#1. The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

John Piper

#2. Deep within the center of the soul is a chamber of peace where God lives and where, if we will enter it and quiet all the other sounds, we can hear His "gentle whisper" (1 Kings 19:12).

Lettie B. Cowman

#3. You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon them, and you will see their increasing glory, like that increasing cloud (1 Kings 18:44).

John Flavel

#4. As we discussed earlier, the gospel is "folly to Gentiles" (1Co 1:23) not only because of its message (namely, a crucified Messiah crowned King of kings in his bodily resurrection as the beginning of the new creation) but because of its very form.

Michael S. Horton

#5. For my grief's so great
That no supporter but the huge firm earth
Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
(Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)

William Shakespeare

#6. I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#7. But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
- Edward II, 5.1

Christopher Marlowe

#8. What the devil possessed me to reply 1 ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play the King's Gambit.

David Bronstein

#9. When it came to dire warnings about Obamacare, the Republicans were the kings of 'swing and a miss.' People would flee the health care industry to avoid Obamacare? Nope - according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care gained about 1 million new jobs in preparation for increased demand.

Kurt Eichenwald

#10. The way of kings / Brandon Sanderson. - 1st ed. p. cm. "A Tom Doherty Associates book." ISBN 978-1-4299-9280-0 (e-book) I. Title. PS3619.A533W375 2010 813'.6 - dc22 2010034369

Brandon Sanderson

#11. I'm waiting for the king to arrive

JR

#12. I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.

Rob Zombie

#13. Appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

Laurel Lea

#14. Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

Charles Davenport

#15. For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

Theodore Parker

#16. The instinct of worship is still so strong upon us that, having nearly worn out our capacity for treating kings and such kind of persons as sacred, we are ready to invest a majority of our own selves with the same kind of reverence.

Auberon Herbert

#17. I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.

David Lee Roth

#18. Locks or no locks, you're not going to cage me in.

Collette West

#19. What they didn't tell you about absolute power was that it was never absolute; the instant you had it, someone had already lined up to try to take it away. Princes could sleep soundly, but never kings. The ear was always tuned for the creak on the

Dennis Lehane

#20. Think when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth; For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass:

William Shakespeare