Quotes About Kingship

#1. I have suggested creation is a work guaranteed by the king. The king is the one charged to order and preserve creation, and thus the return to chaos implicitly announces the failure of kingship and its end.

Walter Brueggemann

#2. David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.

Geraldine Brooks

#3. Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

Heraclitus

#4. It is a kingship grand that all of us build, every day of our meager lives, and it is a castle made of sand. Every wrong righted seems to bring another misdeed tumbling down upon our heads. But I for one will keep building such a kingdom.

Ned Hayes

#5. Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.

Rumi

#6. Kingship: to earn a bad reputation by good deeds.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.

Plato

#8. Rising and falling of the sun confirm Your kingship and Your rulership.

Euginia Herlihy

#9. The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

Aristotle.

#10. His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don't really like the big Kingdom if it gets in the way of our smaller kingdoms, and it always does.

Richard Rohr

#11. It is true: God disturbs our comfortable day-to-day existence. Jesus' kingship goes hand in hand with his Passion.

Pope Benedict XVI

#12. The symbol of the lion, throughout history, throughout cultures, is one pure, radiant symbol and that is leadership, kingship

Linda Tucker

#13. Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#14. Kingship wrought of Infinite worship,
Quick-forged by the Swift Sure Hand;
Bold in Righteousness,
Valiant in Justice,
A sword of honor to defend the clans of Albion!

Stephen R. Lawhead

#15. From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.

Idries Shah

#16. Time is a child playing a game of draughts; the kingship is in the hands of a child.

Heraclitus

#17. God's kingship is present in the church, but it must be insisted that it is not the property of the church. It

Lesslie Newbigin

#18. Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.

Dan Jones

#19. When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

John Milton

#20. Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?'
I - I don't think I do, Sir,' said Caspian. 'I am only a kid.'
Good,' said Aslan. 'If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been proof that you were not.

C.S. Lewis

#21. We are chosen by God, it was not by coincidence. We have been accorded the dignity of kingship and we are called to take the Kingdom to the world. The destiny of millions of people depends on us.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

Peter Hollingworth

#23. It is not for nothing that the king of a commonwealth is called "Sire"; humanly speaking, of the callings of fatherhood and kingship, the deeper and more primordial is fatherhood.

J. Budziszewski

#24. I forgot, being too interested myself, that he's a king, and does not see things rationally, but as a king. All I've told him means to him simply that his power is threatened, his kingdom is a dust mote in space, his kingship is a joke to men who rule a hundred worlds.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#25. If it hurt it was fitting. It was simply kingship.

C.S. Pacat

#26. At first I was exhilarated by my freedom from the responsibility of the kingship. This lasted about seven minutes. I was also depressed by my freedom from marriage, for I had become accustomed to the attentions of a woman. This lasted about nine minutes. Then I was bored.

Piers Anthony

#27. If we could understand how impossible our situation is, we would grow in reverence for the kingship of Christ.

Matt Chandler

#28. Does the twentieth-century disciple have a right to discard the cultural mandate, twice given to the human race by Jehovah himself? Are we justified in turning the world and culture over to the enemies of God How far does the kingship of Christ extend?

Henry R. Van Til

#29. The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.

Lesslie Newbigin

#30. Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.

Heraclitus

#31. It is we who create value and our desires which confer value. In this realm we are kings, and we debase our kingship if we bow down to Nature. It is for us to determine the good life, not for Nature - not even for Nature personified as God.

Bertrand Russell

#32. Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. Statecraft and kingship were not for the faint of heart

Sharon Kay Penman

#34. I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#35. Since God is the universal King, all creation is under His law. Kingship and law are inseparable. A king rules by means of his law, and the law of a king is the expression of his will, purpose, and plan for his realm.

Stephen Mcdowell

#36. Some men want to believe their kingship will make them stronger, more invulnerable to life's sorrows so that hurts do not hurt, pain is laughable. They are surprised to discover the paradox of strength - only the truly vulnerable possess the ability to love powerfully.

Edmond Manning

#37. I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#38. A fire burned in his belly with Helen's words, her challenge laid bare. Are you a king worthy of great glory, or a pretender clamoring for attention at the edge of the world? One look to Menelaus was all the reminder Agamemnon needed of how much he detested that comparison.

Aria Cunningham

#39. Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

Bill Johnson

#40. You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.

Brandi L. Bates

#41. There is no friendship between kings.

Jayne Castel