Top 37 Quotes About The Crown Of Thorns
#1. I know faith. Therefore, I must embrace the crown of thorns. I seek the truth. Therefore, I must dare to disobey God.
Sunao Yoshida
#2. 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
#3. Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
Aneurin Bevan
#4. The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.
Charles Williams
#5. To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
Gordon Lightfoot
#6. 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
#7. Density, matter, radiation ... it's all just construction paper and pipe cleaners and glue, with the proper perspective.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. We are soldiers and have nothing to do with politics. I am obedient to whoever governs the country
Gail Rose Thompson
#11. The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.
Nelson Mandela
#12. The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.
Elisabeth Elliot
#13. We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.
Evan Wright
#14. 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
#15. We arrived someplace where the ground was as blue as the sky. Startled by our sudden appearance, blue pheasants erupted out of the blue grass and shat blue shit.
Kevin Hearne
#16. I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!
Elizabeth Of Hungary
#20. They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
Martin Luther
#21. Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
#22. Who do you think you are? Who do you think I am? You only love to see me breaking. You only want me 'cause I'm Taken. No, you don't really want my heart, no you just like to know you can. Still be the one that gets it breaking, you only want me when I'm Taken.
One Direction
#23. 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
#25. I'm always open, and will criticize myself, too. And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different space than somebody who's just shooting venom at a certain group or a certain amount of individuals.
Ice Cube
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.
Mason Cooley
#29. If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
Clare Boothe Luce
#30. 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
#31. Loyalty is a characteristic trait. Those who has it, gives it free of charge.
Ellen J. Barrier
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. We are all members of a larger community which depends on everyone playing a part.
John Molson
#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
#37. Nothing consumes itself so much as generosity, because while you practise it you're losing the wherewithal to go on practising it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
