Kingdom Of Heaven Quotes - Page 3

• If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Believe, Book

  John Hammond Taylor, Saint Augustine (1983). “Genesi Ad Litteram”, p.43, Paulist Press

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• Oh! how should all hearts be taken with this Christ? Christians! turn your eyes upon the Lord: 'Look, and look again unto Jesus.' Why stand ye gazing on the toys of this world, when such a Christ is offered to you in the gospel? Can the world die for you? Can the world reconcile you to the Father? Can the world advance you to the kingdom of heaven? As Christ is all in all, so let him be the full and complete subject of our desire, and hope, and faith, and love, and joy; let him be in your thoughts the first in the morning, and the last at night.

  Isaac Ambrose

  Christian, Jesus, Morning

  Isaac Ambrose (1832). “Looking Unto Jesus: A View of the Everlasting Gospel, Or, the Soul's Eyeing of Jesus, as Carrying on the Great Work of Man's Salvation, from First to Last”, p.715

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• Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Distance, Science

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• The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion. That is freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heaven, Soul, Kingdoms

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• Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

  John Campbell Shairp

  Children, Humility, Men

  John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.127

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• This present universe is the Kingdom of Heaven, and all we do is to clear away our misconception of it until we see It as It really is.

  Raymond Charles Barker

  Heaven, Kingdoms, Clear

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• The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

  Matthew Henry

  Heaven, Ease, Kingdoms

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Bible commentary - Gospel of Matthew”, p.444, Bible Study Books

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• He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.

  Philip Pullman

  Hard Work, Thinking, Heaven

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

  George William Russell

  Blow, Men, Wind

  George William Russell (1920). “The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government”

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• Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

  Randolph Bourne

  Lying, Book, Heaven

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1969). “History of a Literary Radical and Other Essays”, p.43, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Humility, Humble

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Do not delay in coming to grace, but hasten, lest the robber outstrip you, lest the adulterer pass you by, lest the insatiate be satisfied before you, lest the murderer seize the blessing first, or the publican or the fornicator, or any of these violent ones who take the Kingdom of heaven by force (cf. Mt. 11:12). For it suffers violence willingly, and is tyrannized over through goodness.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Blessing, Cfs

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• The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than as they shall reign hereafter; and yet, though the tares grow in the Church along with the wheat, they do not reign with Him. For they reign with Him who do what the apostle says, 'If you are risen with Christ, mind the things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Seek those things which are above, not the things which are on the earth'.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Hands, Heaven

  "The Works of Aurelius Augustine: A New Translation".

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• The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in heart can see the King. While we think of the world, it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is God, and we shall have God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Kings, Heart, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• How do we receive the highest mystery of Divine love to us ? the mystery of the Christian faith? With our mind, heart and life; with our free will? Are all the three powers of our souls penetrated by holy faith, as were the souls of the saints? The kingdom of heaven 'is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened' (Lk. 13:21). The three measures are the three powers of the soul.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Heaven

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• The kingdom of heaven is comprised of the broken, the fatherless, the poor, the starving. Nothing that could create good ratings for NBC.

  Jon Foreman

  Nbc, Broken, Heaven

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• Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Giving Up, Heaven

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Have no fear for the unsettlement or the disturbance of the Kingdom of heaven. It began in eternity, it will go on through everlasting; there is no panic in the divine personality. God is peace, God gives peace, God gives rest.

  Joseph Parker

  Giving, Personality, Heaven

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• For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

  St. Jerome

  Grieving, Heaven, Desire

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• An invitation is extended to any true seeker who wants to find for himself the Light and Sound of God. This treasure is the birthright of Soul that leads to the Kingdom of Heaven.

  Harold Klemp

  Light, Heaven, Soul

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• Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.

  Dale Carnegie

  Jesus, Heaven, Feelings

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.77, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Teaching, Men

  "Spirits Rebellious". Book by Kahlil Gibran. Chapter "Khalil The Heretic", part 3, 1908.

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• The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that time is not far distant. How I wish we could get the vision of this work, the genius of it, and realize the nearness of that great event. I am sure it would have a sobering effect upon us if we realized what is before us.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Heaven, Self Reliance

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• The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.

  St. Jerome

  Keys, Heaven, Church

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• The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Heaven, Needs, Earth

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