Quotes About Slain

Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

Odor of blood when Christ was slainMade all Platonic tolerance vainAnd vain all Doric discipline.

The first man that was slain in the world was a saint, and he for religion. And as Luther said, Cain will kill Abel unto the end of the world.

The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.

His cousit. Roland, who followed him with the rear of his army, in his return was set upon in the Pyrenean mountains by a troop of Gascon robbers, and slain; and is the famous hero of numberless old French romances and songs

There is special power in that sword, ' Ewer went on, 'the gem in the guard of the Ares holds the blood of the Creature that has been slain by it.

Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.

From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.

Among Aiel, men do not sing, you know. Isn't that strange? From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the slain. I have heard them singing over their dead, and over those they have killed. That song is one to make the stones weep.

We knew thee of old,O divinely restored,By the light of thine eyesAnd the light of thy sword.From the graves of our slainShall thy valor prevailAs we greet thee again—Hail, Liberty! Hail!

And they sang a new song, saying . . . "You were slain and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation." – Revelation 5:9

When the subject was money, central authority had always been taboo; it was a demon that terrified the people. Fear of this demon had kept the country without any effective organization of its finances for seventy-five years. Now, three-quarters of a century after Andrew Jackson, the ghost was slain.

There lives a weeperin each of us-a silent mourner honoring our despairwhen our willingness slain by helplessness continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

The Muslims won a decisive victory; Tabari notes that "the cavalry commander would corner a group of them with the spears of his men; having collected them, they would kill them. On the day of al-Firad, one hundred thousand men were slain in the battle and the pursuit.

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands,O where hae ye been?They hae slain the Earl of Murray,And laid him on the green.

She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh

The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the innocent are slain in the name of law, and their wrongs are undone by slandering the pure of heart.

O Merlin, said Arthur, Here hadst thou been slain for all thy crafts had I not been. Nay, said Merlin, Not so, for I could save myself an I would; and thou art more near thy death than I am, for thou goest to the deathward, an God be not thy friend.

Errant Israelites actually called on their idols to do what only God can do. How do the Daughter of Babylon's idols, and her idol worshippers, end up? "Therefore behold, days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon; and her whole land will be put to shame, and all her slain will fall in her midst." (Jeremiah 51:47)

It was a strategic victory as bloodless for the defeated as for the victor-and the less men slain on the other side, the more potential adherents and recruits for Caesar. Despite the substitution of manoeuvre for direct assaults upon his enemy the campaign had cost him only six weeks of his time.