Kingdoms famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.
-- A. B. Yehoshua -
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
-- Adam Smith -
My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
-- Alan Hirsch -
The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
-- Alan Hirsch -
The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I don't know. But one thing I do know. When I get there I am not going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Moses? Why weren't you David?' I am only going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Zuscha? Why weren't you fully you?'"
-- Alan Loy McGinnis -
Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."
-- Alan Redpath -
The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
-- Alexander Smith -
Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.
-- Alfred Loisy -
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
-- Andrew Young -
Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.
-- Andy Stanley -
I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.
-- Anne Truitt -
For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.
-- Anton Corbijn -
The crowning blessing of a true visitation of the Holy Spirit is a mighty harvest for the kingdom of God.
-- Arthur Wallis -
The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
-- Asa Gray -
I am one of a team of Iraqi weapons inspectors currently travelling through the United Kingdom under very difficult conditions searching for weapons of mass distraction.
-- Attila the Stockbroker -
Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.
-- Beth Moore -
It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.
-- Brett Hull -
No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are
-- Brigham Young -
The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.
-- Cal Thomas -
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
-- Cardinal Richelieu -
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.
-- Cardinal Richelieu -
To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.
-- Catherine Doherty -
Someday all the children of the world will learn the truth about their noble inheritance. When that happens, a miracle will unfold on the kingdom of Earth.
-- Charlene Costanzo -
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
-- Charles Babbage -
One of the most wonderful things about being a Christian is that I don't ever get up in the morning and wonder if what I do matters. I live every day to the fullest because I can live it through Christ and I know no matter what I do today, I'm going to do something to advance the Kingdom of God.
-- Charles Colson -
Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.
-- Charles Colson -
All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
-- Charles de Lint -
The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.
-- Charles Hodge -
Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.
-- Charles Lyell -
The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
-- Charles Stanley -
I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.
-- Charlie Rose -
Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)
-- Christopher Marlowe -
Marry me, princess. I'll give you my kingdom—small potatoes that it is.
-- Cindy Gerard -
Cannot The Kingdom of Salvation take me home?
-- Cliff Burton -
The United Kingdom Is Not A Country That Anybody Can Be Proud Of
-- Craig Murray -
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
-- Dallas Willard -
The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
-- Dallas Willard -
Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible.
-- Dallas Willard -
God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being "right," we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.
-- Dallas Willard -
If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.
-- David B. Haight -
I'm a citizen of the only righteous nation in the Universe-the Kingdom of Jesus Christ!
-- David Berg -
I want to declare my Citizenship in the Kingdom of God and my allegiance to His Kingdom and His City!
-- David Berg -
I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.
-- David Cameron -
Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.
-- David Duchovny -
We are living 'between the times' - the time of Christ's resurrection and the new age of the Spirit, and the time of fulfillment in Christ. Life in the Spirit is a pledge, a 'down-payment', on the final kingdom of shalom. In the meantime, we are to be signs of the kingdom which is, and which is coming.
-- David Edward Kirk -
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
-- David Livingstone -
I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.
-- David Livingstone -
The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.
-- David Platt -
In the kingdom of God there are no second-class citizens.
-- David S. Baxter -
Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.
-- Dean Koontz -
There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.
-- Dean Koontz -
I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
-- Democritus -
One of the great ball-givers in the United Kingdom is Nicholas Parsons.
-- Derek Nimmo -
A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.
-- Donald Cargill -
And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.
-- Doug Pagitt -
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
-- E. M. Forster -
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
-- E. M. Forster -
We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.
-- E. Stanley Jones -
Those who are in Christ are on the winning side. Part of what must happen during this period of great harvest for the kingdom of God is a massive wealth transfer. It is not going to happen by theft or governmental policy. It is going to happen supernaturally. Those invested in God’s market are going to reap a windfall. Make up your mind now to buy in.
-- E.W. Jackson -
Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.
-- Edward Dyer -
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.
-- Elie Wiesel -
I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
-- Elizabeth I -
I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
-- Emmanuelle Beart -
Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.
-- Eric Ludy -
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
-- Florence Nightingale -
Of all the difficulties in a state, the temper of a true government most felicifies and perpetuates it; too sudden alterations distemper it. Had Nero tuned his kingdom as he did his harp, his harmony had been more honorable, and his reign more prosperous.
-- Francis Quarles -
I don't talk people into the Kingdom, I listen them into it!
-- Gary Poole -
The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.
-- Gavyn Davies -
I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.
-- George Best -
God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.
-- George Carey -
The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.
-- George Eldon Ladd -
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
-- George Eliot -
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.
-- George Mikes -
The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.
-- Goldwin Smith -
Each of us has to face the matter—either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
Yet in a kingdom containing seven constituent parts, which is upheld like the triple staff ,of an ascetic , there is no ,single part more important ,than the others , by reason of the importance of the qualities of each for the others.
-- Guru Nanak -
A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!
-- Gustav Mahler -
Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.
-- H. G. Wells -
Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.
-- H. P. Blavatsky -
A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.
-- H. Richard Niebuhr -
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
-- Haile Selassie -
And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
-- Haniel Long -
Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.
-- Hassanal Bolkiah -
In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.
-- Heinrich von Kleist -
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
-- Henning Mankell -
God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work in the world.
-- Henri Nouwen -
During true revival, thousands of lost people are suddenly swept into the Kingdom of God. Scenes of the lost coming to the Savior in great, and unprecedented numbers, are common.
-- Henry Blackaby -
No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.
-- Hugh Reginald Haweis -
Let the debate begin, let the rest of the world know that the iconic symbol of the United Kingdom may change
-- Ian Lucas
