Biblical Sayings

59 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 59 authors

I know that I shall have to render an account to God for all my actions.

— Peter the Great Early 18th century
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

— Napoleon Bonaparte 1815-1821
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I am a mortal, but I am also a Tsar. God has placed me on this throne.

— Ivan the Terrible c. 1560s
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It is better to keep God and the King out of the matter.

— Philip II of Spain c. 1570s
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Gentlemen, I pray you to believe that I am not so old as I appear.

— Louis XIV c. 1700s
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Music is the food of the soul.

— Frederick the Great c. 1740s-1780s
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The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

— John Locke 1689
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

— Voltaire 1767
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762
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The imagination is the most lordly faculty of the soul.

— David Hume 1739-1740
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The highest good of the mind is the knowledge of God, and the highest virtue of the mind is to know God.

— Baruch Spinoza 1677
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The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe.

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1714
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.

— Francis Bacon 1625
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I have a soul that pants for liberty.

— Mary Wollstonecraft 1793
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They have no astrologers among them, nor any other diviners.

— Thomas More 1516
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Just as a father feels for his children, so does God feel for us.

— Erasmus 1503
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

— Blaise Pascal 1670 (posthumous)
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free.

— Edmund Burke 1791
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

— William Shakespeare c. 1596-1599
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I, the sultan of sultans, the sovereign of sovereigns, the distributor of crowns to the monarchs of the globe, the shadow of God on earth...

— Suleiman the Magnificent c. 1525
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