King Christian IV

Famous quotes containing the words king and/or christian:

    So doth the greater glory dim the less:
    A substitute shines brightly as a king
    Until a king be by.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)