Top 36 Quotes About A Crown Of Thorns
#1. 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
#2. Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and sickle Are symbols that reap only weeds
Andy Partridge
#3. 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 Moore
#4. Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
#5. They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
Martin Luther
#6. How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!
Elizabeth Of Hungary
#7. The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.
Elisabeth Elliot
#9. 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
#10. If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
Clare Boothe Luce
#11. 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
#13. The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.
Nelson Mandela
#14. Love, just to love. Don't wait for a reason to love. That is selfishness.
Debasish Mridha
#15. For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#16. A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem
John Milton
#17. The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.
James Stewart
#18. I know faith. Therefore, I must embrace the crown of thorns. I seek the truth. Therefore, I must dare to disobey God.
Sunao Yoshida
#19. Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#20. In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.
Richard Cecil
#21. Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes to film, because there's so many technicalities. So if I'm in my head, I've gotten settled on something, I'm gonna have to change it if I get there and something was set that's completely different.
Sebastian Stan
#22. Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
Aneurin Bevan
#23. The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.
Charles Williams
#24. To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
Gordon Lightfoot
#25. You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Jerry Gillies
#26. I wear my crown of thorns on my liars chair, full of broken thoughts I cannot repair, beneath the stain of time the feelings disappears. What have I become, my sweetest of friends?
Johnny Cash
#27. To give a dopamine kick and create desire, offer a reward. To give a norepinephrine kick and create tension, take something away.
Oren Klaff
#28. If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.
Victoria Wood
#29. Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.
Anita Brookner
#30. 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
#32. If the cross of Christ, the nails, spear, and crown of thorns are to be honoured, then why not honour Judas's lips, if only they could be found?
Anne Hudson
#33. Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.
Mason Cooley
#35. The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
Elbert Hubbard
#36. And it is not enough in the world for a wise brain to be ridiculed, it must also be wounded & mistreated; a head that is a treasury of wisdom should not expect any crown other than one of thorns. What garland can human wisdom expect when it sees what divine wisdom received?
Juana Ines De La Cruz
