Epistle to Congreve (1693), line 19.
“Such subjects are the very strength of kings,
And are thus above the law.”
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) French tragedian
De pareils serviteurs sont les forces des rois,
Et de pareils aussi sont au-dessus des lois.
Tulle, act V, scene iii
King Tullus forgives the hero, Horace, who has saved the state but killed his sister.
Horace (1639)
“Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.”
Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order
William Osler (1849–1919) Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospi…
As quoted in The Book of Unusual Quotations (1957) by Rudolf Franz Flesch, p. 122.
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
Bhawani Mandir, 1905
India's Rebirth
Haile Selassie (1892–1975) Emperor of Ethiopia
Address to the World Evangelical Congress in Berlin (28 October 1966).
Context: This age above all ages is a period in history when it should be our prime duty to preach the Gospel of Grace to all our fellow men and women. The love shown in Christ by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ to do all in our power to see to it that the Message of Salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ Our Saviour was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news. Since nobody can interfere in the realm of God we should tolerate and live side by side with those of other faiths.
“Thus each by his fears adds strength to rumour, and all dread the unconfirmed dangers invented by themselves.”
Sic quisque pavendo
dat vires famae, nulloque auctore malorum
quae finxere timent.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book I, line 484 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
Summations, Chapter 63
Context: I understood none higher stature in this life than Childhood, in feebleness and failing of might and of wit, unto the time that our Gracious Mother hath brought us up to our Father’s Bliss. And then shall it verily be known to us His meaning in those sweet words where He saith: All shall be well: and thou shalt see, thyself, that all manner of things shall be well. And then shall the Bliss of our Mother, in Christ, be new to begin in the Joys of our God: which new beginning shall last without end, new beginning.
Thus I understood that all His blessed children which be come out of Him by Nature shall be brought again into Him by Grace.
Meera Bai Hindu mystic poet
Meera Bai, in [ http://books.google.co.in/books?id=fpcvv5pGKWMC&pg=PA250 Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West], p. 250
Jewel (1974) American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress, and poet
"I Say to You Idols"
A Night Without Armor (1998)
