Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 124
Context: God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.
Girolamo Savonarola: Lord
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E fu in quel tempo che io montai quassù, e dissi che io non era mandato a predicarti da uomo del mondo, né da signore alcuno, ma da colui che è signore dei signori e dalla santa Trinità.
Sermon of 18 February 1498, as quoted in Material for a History of Pope Alexander VI, His Relatives and His Time, 5 vols. http://www.attomelani.net/?page+id=143, (1924) by Monsignor Peter de Roo, Bruges, Desclée, De Brouwer, volume 3, p. 265. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=%22+lord+of+lords+and+by+the+holy+trinity%22&btnG=#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&tbo=1&tbm=bks&source=hp&q=%22lord+of+lords+and+by+the+holy+trinity%22&pbx=1&oq=%22lord+of+lords+and+by+the+holy+trinity%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=7992l7992l0l9097l1l1l0l0l0l0l248l248l2-1l1l0&fp=1&biw=1133&bih=590&cad=b&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb Basic searches to find frequency and page number of specific words and phrases for all five volumes http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001925194 at HathiTrust.
Scelta di Prediche e Scritti di Fra Girolamo Savonarola, con Nuovi Documenti Intorno alla Sua Vita (Selection of Sermons and Writings of Fra Girolamo Savonarola, with New Documents concerning his Life), 1898, Pasquale Villari, E. Casanova, Firenze (Florence), G. E. Sansoni, edition, p. 288. http://books.google.com/books?id=yKpZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA288&dq=%22predicarti+da+uomo+del+mondo+n%C3%A8+da+Signore+alcuno,+ma+da+Colui+%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A9klT9b_EKypsALV3tiMAg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22ma%20da%20colui%20che%20%C3%A8%20signore%20dei%20signori%20e%20dalla%20santa%20Trinit%C3%A0%22&f=false
Jérôme Savonarole: d'après les Documents Originaux (Girolamo Savonarola: According to the Original Documents), 1856, François Tommy Perrens, Paris, appendice, p. 352. http://books.google.com/books?id=5W02AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA352&dq=%22ma+da+colui+che+%C3%A8+signore%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=l_0lT5ijMqWJsgK5jLWMAg&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22ma%20da%20colui%20che%20%C3%A8%20signore%22&f=false
“Behold the sword of the Lord will descend suddenly and quickly upon the earth.”
Ecce gladius Domini super terram, cito et velociter.
Motto he beheld in a vision (December 1492), as quoted in History of the Christian Church, Vol. V (1910) by Philip Schaff, and David Schley Schaff p. 688
Behold the sword of the Lord, swift and sure, over the earth.
As quoted in Books: The Sword of God" in TIME (17 August 1959)