Kingship Quotes

• May all the gods whom I settled in their sacred centers ask daily of Bêl and Nâbu that my days be long and may they intercede for my welfare. ... The people of Babylon blessed my kingship, and I settled all the lands in peaceful abodes.

  Cyrus the Great

  Blessed, Land, Long

  Inscription on the Cyrus Cylinder, as translated at Livius.org, www.livius.org. 538 B.C.E..

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• In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

  Gianni Versace

  Past, People, Royal

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Sea, Water

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 54

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

  Linda Tucker

  Culture, Lions, Symbols

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• Discipleship is rooted in a deep belief in the universal reign of God through Christ. To be a disciple is to acknowledge that reign and to embrace the lifelong journey of submitting more and more of every aspect of your life to His good, just, and peaceable reign, as well as alerting others to God's kingship by both word and deed.

  Michael Frost

  Journey, Deeds, Reign

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• 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

  Art, Men, Law

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

  Matt Chandler

  Impossible, Christ, Situation

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• 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

  Kings, Taken, Blessing

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• 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

  Kings, Fighting, Men

  John Milton (1847). “The Prose Works of John Milton”, p.517

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• 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

  Religious, Men, Order

  Lesslie Newbigin (1988). “Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture”, p.122, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• "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'm only a kid."
  "Good," said Aslan. "If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not."

  C. S. Lewis

  Kids, Thinking, Welcome

  "Prince Caspian" by C. S. Lewis, (Ch. 15), 1951.

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• All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Risk, Denial, Sovereignty

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• If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

  C. S. Lewis

  Narnia, Proof, Has Beens

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.150, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• 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

  Cousin, Warrior, Taste

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.739, Ballantine Books

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

  Heraclitus

  Children, Moving, Games

  "The Art and Thought of Heraclitus". Book by Charles H. Kahn, 1979.

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• Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.

  Rumi

  Love, Kings, Regard

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• The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that he is not aware of it; enhanced Executive power to the point of reducing Congress to innocuity; and enabled the central government to bribe the states, once independent units, into subservience. No kingship in the history of the world ever exercised more power than our Presidency, or had more of the people's wealth at its disposal.

  Frank Chodorov

  Independent, Rights, Government

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.46, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• 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

  Numbers, Political, Democracy

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• 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

  Flower, Garden, Perfect

  Entry for December 30, 1850, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.

  R. C. Sproul

  Religious, Jesus, Father

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Doe, Ends

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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