Quote by Pope Alexander I of Alexandria

“He would like best of all to persecute us with fire and sword, but this method has availed him little because through the blood…

— Martin Luther

“But then it was Thomas More who reminded us that when you don these robes you must be willing to make decisions that will…

— Jeffrey Archer

“There was something twisting in his gut that he wanted to deny and couldn't. It was like a knife in him that he could…

— Hazel B. West

“Shed not recklessly the blood of another with thy sword, Lest the Sword on High falls upon thy neck.”

— Guru Gobind Singh

“The other men also disarmed, as was suitable in the house of God, leaving an impressively bristling pile of lethality in the back pew.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“All things seemed in their kinds to be my enemies... It seemed then to my apprehension to proceed from indignation, wrath, and as it…

— Richard Norwood English Puritan 1638

“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.”

— Thomas Hobbes

“Trials aren't meant to harm us but to make us more Christlike.”

— Andrea Boeshaar

“Compromise is the assassin of fellowship with God.”

— Mark Hall

“They tried to pierce your heart with a Morgul-knife which remains in the wound. If they had succeeded, you would have become like they…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“And as he plucked his cursed steel away, Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it, As rushing out of doors, to be resolved…

— William Shakespeare

“He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.”

— William Golding