King David Quotes

• The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

  Robert Duvall

  Kings, Sleep, Men

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• As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.

  Francine Rivers

  Kings, Heart, Men

  Francine Rivers (2009). “Redeeming Love: A Novel”, p.224, Multnomah

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• We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or have lifted up the spear against the eight hundred, if we would know the saving strength of God's right hand. Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Christian, Kings

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1869). “Gleanings Among the Sheaves”, p.90

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• Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat tofu dogs and bean sprouts. They didn’t play tennis. If there were trucks back in their times, they would have been doing driveway lube jobs on a Saturday afternoon. Same thing with King David. Yeah, he might have played a lyre, but he slaughtered thousands of guys.

  Mark Driscoll

  Dog, Jesus, Kings

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• There's a devil inside me which cries, "You're not the son of the Carpenter, you're the son of King David! You are not a man, you are the Son of man whom Daniel prophesied." And still more: "The Son of God! And still more: God!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Kings, Son, Men

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

  Luke Ford

  Kings, Book, Hero

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