Top 100 Quotes About A Throne
#1. If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.
Idries Shah
#2. Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love ... Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#3. It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Petrarch
#4. I don't believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable.
Katy Perry
#5. 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.
Louie Giglio
#6. Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.
Pierre Corneille
#8. The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, sold consciences, bought women, and rampant drunkenness.
Emile Zola
#9. Church and court, it's all the same - pews, a throne, a God, the accused.
Mitchell S. Jackson
#10. I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
George R R Martin
#11. A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#12. Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
Maximilien Robespierre
#13. I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne
Christopher Love
#14. Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.
Blaise Pascal
#15. A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.
Swami Vivekananda
#16. Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
Al Goldstein
#17. To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.
Cynthia Ozick
#18. There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.
Randy Alcorn
#19. Some of us attend the church on the corner, professing to worship the living God above all. Others, who rarely darken the church doors, would say worship isn't a part of their lives because they aren't "religious." But everybody has an altar. And every altar has a throne.
Louie Giglio
#20. Man in his usual perversity turns the footstool into a throne from whence he would feign direct the Almighty as to what He ought to do, giving the onlooker the impression that if God had half the compassion that those who pray (?) have, all would quickly be right
Arthur W. Pink
#21. The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon a throne without limits, seems to have wished to punish, as for the abuse of republican reforms, by making us feel all the weight of absolute monarchy.
Marquis De Lafayette
#22. High on a throne of royal state, which far
John Milton
#23. I say his version because there is no such thing as a true account of anything. Each sees the world from his own vantage point. Needless to say, a throne is not the best place from which to view anything except the backs of prostrate men.
Gore Vidal
#24. What does a man seek in this world? A position, or a throne? Man seeks peace of mind and the fear of Almighty God. As long as one knows that there is ajudgement day, he tries to keep his conscience clear and do what he can.
King Hussein I
#25. 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.
Edward VIII
#26. We can get you a throne with snakes. I'll stand next to you and roar at anybody who fails to grovel. Fear Kate Daniels. She is a mighty and terrible ruler. Grendel can anoint the petitioners with his vomit. It'll be great ...
Ilona Andrews
#27. Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.
Ed Thigpen
#28. At least she's willing to figure it out, do something, risk something and take its measure. I risk nothing. I sit on a throne and identify signs of imperfection in others.
Toni Morrison
#30. I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
Frances Farmer
#31. A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
Honore De Balzac
#32. Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#33. I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath
a rank
a throne
a grave
The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
#34. Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#35. Satan's warming me a throne, that's how long [I've been watching you]. Not a chair, not a seat at the bar. The big guy's got a throne with my name on it.
Sarah Winter
#36. On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.
George Will
#37. A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.
Publilius Syrus
#38. Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.
N. T. Wright
#39. Do you expect to suffer long nights of languishing and days of pain? O be not sad! That bed may become a throne to you. You little know how every pang that shoots through your body may be a refining fire to consume your dross
a beam of glory to light up the secret parts of your soul.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#40. God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.
William Gurnall
#41. 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
#42. I had a dream, which seemed so real,
I was King of the world, so full of appeal,
Upon waking I found I wasn't alone,
In a kingdom called Home, sitting on a throne.
Omar Kiam
#44. I want to be aware of how I treat others, not thinking too highly of myself to be a servant in a culture which tries to place me on a throne that only God should sit.
Maya Moore
#45. The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.
Edward Gibbon
#46. If the king could make a throne seem like a stool fit for a printer's apprentice, the queen could make a rumpled bedspread into a throne.
Megan Whalen Turner
#47. Enzo inherited a throne. Giulietta relied on her royal blood. Queen Maeve rules Beldain because she was born to it.
But true rulers are not born. We are made.
Marie Lu
#48. 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
#49. It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
Edgar Allan Poe
#50. Im sitting in a chair but in the future its a throne.
Drake
#51. I have a room whereinto no one enters
Save I myself alone:
There sits a blessed memory on a throne,
There my life centres.
Christina Rossetti
#52. If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.
Charles Spurgeon
#53. The concept of a supermind running the universe objectively, without compassion, is not new. Several religions are built around it. Thinking of God in these terms is not heresy but is advanced theology. The old-time God - the big bearded man sitting on a throne in the sky - is dead.
John A. Keel
#54. A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
William Ralph Inge
#55. If I was in Heaven, I would be on a throne and its King would be packing.
Lionel Suggs
#57. You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
Boris Yeltsin
#59. At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, walls of James Patterson thrillers, and a throne from about a thousand copies of something called The Five Habits of Highly Aggressive Women.
Rick Riordan
#60. the story of a queen named Cassiopeia who lived forever on a throne in the sky.
Rick Yancey
#61. In a throne above them sat a dead man with the head of a wolf. He wore an iron crown and held a leg of lamb in one hand as a king might hold a scepter,
George R R Martin
#62. I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.
Samuel Rutherford
#63. Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
Kate Williams
#64. I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.
Lady Gaga
#65. James Horner, James Newton Howard, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, or Ramin Djawadi would all be a dream come true for a 'Throne of Glass' soundtrack.
Sarah J. Maas
#66. A clown on a throne is still a clown. A king in rags is still a king.
C. JoyBell C.
#67. What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state - I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#68. An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?
George R R Martin
#69. Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.
Marcus Annaeus Lucan
#71. Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things, which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Many tyrants have sat on a throne, and those whom no man would think on, have worn crowns.
Jeff Wheeler
#72. Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute
Erich Heller
#73. Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?
Stephen Sondheim
#74. Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
Aberjhani
#75. Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Lord Byron
#76. Welcome, Bell said, not rising from a large wooden chair that had been placed in the center of the room like it was a throne. Would that make him the king of sewer rats?
Kalayna Price
#77. A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.
Alan Redpath
#78. You're a bastard," I said.
"Uhtred," he began, but could find nothing more to say.
"You're a piece of weasel-shit," I said, "you're an earsling."
"I'm a king," he said, trying to regain his dignity.
"So you're a royal piece of weasel-shit. An earsling on a throne.
Bernard Cornwell
#79. 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
#80. Against my will, my fate,
A throne unsettled, and an infant state,
Bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, And guard with these severities my shores.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#81. The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one, Jesus occupies the other.
A.W. Tozer
#82. LO! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Edgar Allan Poe
#83. Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.
Charles Spurgeon
#84. My nephew is not fit to sit a privy, let alone the Iron Throne.
George R R Martin
#85. A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we pray in His name it should be without wavering. Remember His merits, and how prevalent they must be. "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."
Nehemiah Adams
#86. Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?
Frances Harper
#87. 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.
Pope Leo XIII
#88. It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.
Charles Spurgeon
#89. A chair does not make a great leader. But a great leader can make any chair, his throne."
--Dark Mother
Jeffrey B. Thompson
#90. I'm impressed you got up here so quickly - and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand at being an assassin." He shook the hair out of his face.
"I'm not interested in court ladies," he said thickly, and kissed her.
Sarah J. Maas
#91. 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
#92. large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer
Charles Dickens
#93. A queen could leave her throne.
But a mother never leaves her son.
V.E Schwab
#94. It isn't our responsibility to defend our values and prioritize our message over our posture. We inherited a kingdom that cannot be shaken; we are an unthreatened people. God will stay on His throne without our rigorous defense.
Jen Hatmaker
#95. I've never taken a woman on a beach," - Rowan Whitethorn
Sarah J. Maas
#96. EPIGRAPH And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
James Rollins
#97. Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
Baal Shem Tov
#98. His background and knowledge can't be transplanted overnight, ... I'd make a point that unless you sat on the throne, you don't know what it's like to be king. In reality there are a lot of things that you do and people you influence that other people don't see and that impact is there for the city.
Jeri Ryan
#99. It was a voice she had heard before, deep and raspy. It made her bones crack and splinter, made her feel the astonishing cold of a winter long since passed.
Sarah J. Maas
#100. Hallelujah"
"Your faith was strong but you needed proof.
You saw her bathing on the roof.
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.
She tied you to a kitchen chair,
she broke your throne, and she cut your hair.
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah ...
Leonard Cohen
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