Anointed Quotes

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.”
― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

“…the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?”
― Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

“Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon's bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.
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― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

“The beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be. During his reign he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity. The Hare said, “Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong.” And after the Hare said this, he ran for his life.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.”
― Louis L'Amour, Comstock Lode

“I have a spiritual journey on earth.
Lord anoint and empower me to accomplish my great task on earth.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life

“Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“If your altar is not active, your voice will not be strong”
― Steven Chuks Nwaokeke

“Folks can’t seem to realize that it isn’t a smooth talker we need in there but a steady man, a man with judgement. Any medicine-show man can spout words, if they are written for him. It takes no genius to sound well. To act right and at the right time is something else again.”
― Louis L'Amour, Comstock Lode

“Never you fight a man that knows and understand the mysteries about God.”
― Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success

“Robert Ashford possessed one of the key character flaws necessary to a traitor. He thought he was smarter than everyone else. This allowed the overeducated career bureaucrat to sell out his own country, because he believed he knew what was best for his nation and its people.”
― Brad Thor, Full Black

“Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“God has called us to minister and anointed us to serve Him and not ourselves”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We must stop seeing our anointed men and women of God as Seers, magic workers, Herbalist and native doctors.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To be altarless is to be voiceless”
― Steven Chuks Nwaokeke

“To suggest that “society” can simply “arrange” better outcomes somehow, without specifying the processes, the costs or the risks, is to ignore the tragic history of the twentieth century, written in the blood of millions, killed in peacetime by their own governments that were given extraordinary powers in the name of lofty goals.”
― Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society

“Raising a child whether yours or not, is being anointed by God to be the guardian of his Kingdom in a form of a child.”
― Unarine Ramaru

“When there is shortage of anointing, you will begin to doubt your calling”
― Steven Chuks Nwaokeke

“A pastor without anointing is just a religious professor”
― Steven Chuks Nwaokeke

“Do not try to prove that you are the most important person or that you are the lord’s anointed”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Being a vessel of God Almighty, I am divinely guided and protected wherever I am and whatever I am doing, the glory of the Lord God Almighty is always with me.”
― Stellah Mupanduki, The Moulding Of The Holy Spirit Of God

“They hated me, because they knew from birth that i m bigger than them.”
― Nkahloleng Eric Mohlala

“4:3. the anointed priest. Hebrew hakkōhēn hammāšîaḥ. This is the first occurence of the word māšîaḥ, meaning "anointed" and commonly translated elsewhere in the Tanakh as "Messiah." In the Torah māšîaḥalways refers to the high priest and not, as it later came to mean, the king.”
― Richard Elliott Friedman, Commentary on the Torah