Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the same...
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.
But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1
But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
Who shall resist Anti-Christ when he comes if we show such patience towards the vices and crimes of his precursors? By such leniency, we encourage kings to become tyrants and tempt them to withdraw ev...
We must not define Jesus and his kingdom by fitting them within conventional understandings of kings and kingdoms. Rather, we must judge and deconstruct those conventional definitions in light of Jesu...
It's not you worries me. The king is a good man, and an old friend, but it has been a long time, and kings change. Even more than other people, kings change.