“Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.”
Exsurge Domine (1520)
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Pope Leo X13
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Carl Linnaeus book Systema Naturae
Praise at the end of the introduction. In Systema Naturae (1758).
Original in Latin: "Terribilia sunt opera Tua, o Domine! In multitude virtutis Tuae, Te metientur contemptores Tui."
Systema Naturae
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2009, First Inaugural Address (January 2009)
Pope Benedict XVI (1927) 265th Pope of the Catholic Church
Full text of his first public speech as pope, upon his presentation as Pope Benedict XVI
2005
“If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord.”
Uthman (574–656) Companion of Muhammad and third Rashidun Caliph
Jami al-Uloon wa'l-Hikm, p. 363
“O Time! whose verdicts mock our own,
The only righteous judge art thou!”
Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) American writer