Quotes about Rule
Once humanity violated that single rule and took charge, however, hundreds of laws had to be passed, because each injunction could die the death of a thousand qualifications through constant exceptions to the rule.
— Ravi Zacharias
It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God. His hand is ever on the throttle of human affairs. He is everywhere present in the concerns of time. His eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men. He rules the world just as He rules the church by prayer.
— Darlene Zschech
There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!" If the world and everything in it belong to God and come under his direct claim over them in and through Jesus, then there can be no sphere of life that is not radically open to the rule of God. There can be no non-God area in our lives and in our culture.
— Alan Hirsch
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus wants men who will rule well.
— Tony Evans
I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!
— John Adams
Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.
— Ezra Taft Benson
No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
— Thomas a Kempis
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
— John Henry Newman
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.
— John Keats
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
— Edmund Burke