Biblical Sayings
59 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 59 authors
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I know that I shall have to render an account to God for all my actions.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
I am a mortal, but I am also a Tsar. God has placed me on this throne.
It is better to keep God and the King out of the matter.
Gentlemen, I pray you to believe that I am not so old as I appear.
Music is the food of the soul.
The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.
The imagination is the most lordly faculty of the soul.
The highest good of the mind is the knowledge of God, and the highest virtue of the mind is to know God.
The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
I have a soul that pants for liberty.
They have no astrologers among them, nor any other diviners.
Just as a father feels for his children, so does God feel for us.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
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...