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My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.
Peter Tosh
My belief is: if you don't endure suffering, you can't reap glory so you must accept some level of embarrassment to get to triumph.
2.
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
Alexander Pushkin
Courageously disregarding any disparagement, not seeking accolades, accepting both compliments and criticism without prejudice, and refusing to engage in debate with the foolish.
3.
Trust in God, that's where the crown is at. It's not in what you get, it's what happens after that.
KRS-One
'Rely on Divine Providence, for there lies true reward. It is not in attainment, but rather the consequences.'
4.
One who wants to wear the crown, bears the crown.
Lee Min-ho
'He who aspires to rule, must accept the responsibility.'
5.
As someone has said, we either crucify or crown the Lord Jesus by our lives.
J. Vernon McGee
It has been said that we either venerate or vilify the Lord Jesus with our actions.
7.
Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne
Nas
8.
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
Elizabeth I
9.
Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it.
Queen Latifah
10.
You may have won the war, but you will never take my crown
Ronnie Radke
11.
IF YOU APPROACH THE WORLD WITH THE APRON OF A SERVANT,THEN YOU ARE ALLOWED TO GO PLACES THAT YOU CAN'T GO IF YOU APPROACH IT WITH THE CROWN OF A KING
Jon Foreman
13.
When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.
Ben E. King
14.
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
Aneurin Bevan
16.
If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, 'you will receive a never-fading crown of glory'
Louis de Montfort
17.
Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
Althea Gibson
18.
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
Beatrix Potter
19.
Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
John Wycliffe
20.
The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.
Ambrose
21.
What would I do with starry crowns except to cast them at His feet?
Mary Slessor
23.
I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.
Charles I of England
24.
I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.
Queen Latifah
25.
Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.
Julie Andrews
26.
God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.
Thomas Brooks
27.
Hey Belieber, never lower your head to anyone who criticizes you, your crown can not drop my princess.
Justin Bieber
28.
Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.
Monica Crowley
29.
Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.
Mason Cooley
30.
I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.
Wilfrid Laurier
32.
One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown
Marcy Kaptur
33.
Christian worship must contain both the cross and the crown. Sing of majesty, and sing of mercy.
Matt Redman
34.
When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.
Josemaria Escriva
35.
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
Desiderius Erasmus
36.
There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel.
Geerhardus Vos
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde
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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
Charles Dickens
39.
We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.
William Booth
40.
Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
Terry Goodkind
41.
You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.
Charles Spurgeon
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
Tom Petty
43.
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
Winifred Holtby
44.
I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
Elizabeth I
45.
The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.
Charles Williams
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All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.
Brigham Young
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This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.
Thomas Watson
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There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
Charles Spurgeon
49.
When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
Jack Welch
50.
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
Robert Herrick