A Quote by Martin Luther

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Martin Luther

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Martin Luther
German - Leader
November 10, 1483 - February 18, 1546

As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).

William Shakespeare

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

Friedrich Schiller

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Augustus Hare

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Augustus Hare

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

David Hare

Honour is Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps All perfect justice in her arms; that craves No more respect than that she gives; that does Nothing but what she'll suffer.

Philip Massinger

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As the sun is to the earth, so Honour is to a man. without it, he will not flourish. All else may fail you, but honour is the treasure no one can take from you, the shield no one can penetrate unless you let them. Honour is beautiful and clean. Honour is sacred.

Morgan Llywelyn

I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

Felipe VI of Spain

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

Elizabeth Montagu

Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

Horace

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.