All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.
Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.
Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.
the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.
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.
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.
True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God.