Bible Principalities Quotes & Sayings

When the Bible used that very expression about fighting with principalities and powers and depraved hypersomatic beings at great heights (our translation is very misleading at that point, by the way) it meant that quite ordinary people were to do the fighting. — C.S. Lewis

Her life wasn't supposed to be like this. It was empty. She — Ken Kupstis

Cotto is a talented fighter but I'm God gifted. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Some religions, such as Catholicism, fully endorsed slavery, as Pope Nicholas V made clear when, in 1452, he issued the radically proslavery document Dum Diversas. This was a papal bull granting Catholic countries such as Spain and Portugal "full and free permission to invade, search out, capture, and subjugate the Saracens and pagans and any other unbelievers and enemies of Christ wherever they may be, as well as their kingdoms, duchies, counties, principalities, and other property ... and to reduce their persons into perpetual slavery."10 These last few words - to reduce their persons into perpetual slavery - sound not just sinister to us, but also psychotic. They make perfect sense, however, in a Christian context, given that the Bible is itself a heedlessly proslavery tome. — Michael Shermer

Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?"
"What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said.
"Tomorrow morning," Mabel said. — Libba Bray

I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write. — Lang Leav

Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled. — Neil Gaiman

My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife. — Matt Nagle

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. — Seneca The Younger

Things most oft bad begun most oft get worse, as a wise man once said. — Eddie Lenihan

An opinion is not a momentary thing but a process of thinking, shaped by the continuous acquisition of knowledge and the activity of questioning, discussion, and debate. — Neil Postman

The truth is, sir, that men do what their power permits them to do. We are no different from the Pharaohs or the Mongols: the difference is only that when we kill people we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history. — Amitav Ghosh