Crowns Quotes

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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts… — Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems… — Aimee Semple McPherson
Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid… — Rick Perry
The jewel in the baby product crown is the stroller. And if in America you are what you drive, then in Parentland, you are what… — Paul Reiser
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. — Winifred Holtby
The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The… — Charles Spurgeon
Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth. — Alphonsus Liguori
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free. — A. E. Housman
To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown. — Elizabeth Blackwell
Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all… — Lorenz Oken
The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss. — Robert Greene
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to… — Benjamin Disraeli
Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice;… — John Bunyan
If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We… — Simonides of Ceos
A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down… — James Thomas Fields
The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all… — John of Damascus
Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds… — Irenaeus of Lyons
But it's true, kingdoms and crowns, a God who came down to find you. It's true, angels on high sing through the night, Alleluia. — Sara Groves
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts… — William Cowper

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