For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God’s love, as we strive daily to become better people.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThe upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.
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We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. …
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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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