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  • As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot, and reigns above the waterfloods as a king.

    Kings   Numbers   Clouds  
    Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.225, Jazzybee Verlag
  • If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses.

    Nas
    Horse   Abortion   Nasty  
  • If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.

    Running   Race   Christ  
    "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.
  • That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your soul into the dust, may henceforth be a glorious chariot to carry you to the heights of heavenly patience and long-suffering.

    Crush   Dust   Long  
    Hannah Whitall Smith (2017). “The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life”, p.179, B&H Publishing Group
  • The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.

    Night   Vanity   Bird  
    Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.21
  • Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

    Science   Genius   Fancy  
    Ouida (1871). “Chandos: A Novel : in Two Volumes”, p.91
  • And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

    Time   Feet   Mountain  
    Milton preface (1804 - 1810)
  • Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.

    Life   Wheels   Chariots  
  • Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

    Sweet   Heart   Blow  
    Oscar Wilde (2008). “Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde”, p.24, Penguin
  • Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and received the homage of the hosts ere they departed northwards for Thebes. At nightfall they returned again and sat side by side at the marriage feast, and once more Tua swept her harp of ivory and gold, and sang the ancient song of him who dared much for love, and won the prize.

    Love   Song   Queens  
    H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Morning Star”, p.295, The Floating Press
  • In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.

    Patriotic   Light   July  
    Thomas Paine, “Liberty Tree”
  • My work is getting stronger & stronger and more intense all the time.... I have such a rush of new energy & notions coming into my head, over my horizon like chariots of fire that all I want is freedom to step aside and execute them.

    Fire   Stronger   Energy  
  • Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

    Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.15
  • I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast.

    "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.
  • I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots of Fire: "God made me fast and when I run I feel his pleasure." God gave me a love of writing and (I knew) to do it I would feel God's pleasure.

    Running   Writing   Fire  
    "Comparing “Heaven is for Real” with “God’s Not Dead” + an interview with “Heaven” writer/director Randall Wallace". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
  • I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

  • Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land

    Sleep   Fighting   Dark  
    'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'
  • But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserv'd virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace.

    Song   Lying   Thinking  
    "To His Coy Mistress" l. 31 (1681)
  • Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

    Fire   Offering   Flames  
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group
  • Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.

    Moving   Expression   Law  
    Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York
  • Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

    Age   Faces   Wheels  
  • Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

    Years   Judging   Cry  
    Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com
  • And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

    Time   Lying   Desert  
    "To His Coy Mistress" l. 21 (1681)
  • The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.

  • Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call "the enjoyer.

    Wise   Horse   Men  
  • ...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.

    Beautiful   Horse   Kings  
    Edith Hamilton (2017). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition”, p.124, Hachette UK
  • But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

    Ocean   August   Ears  
    Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics
  • The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.

    Stars   Men   Hands  
  • But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

    Witty   Time   Humorous  
    "To His Coy Mistress" l. 21 (1681)
  • Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

    Hannah Whitall Smith (2014). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life: Personal, Practical, and Powerful--An Invitation to Live Life at Its Most Blessed”, p.104, Barbour Publishing
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