Kingdoms Quotes - Page 33

• If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Building Up, Acting

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on revivals of religion”, p.159

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• There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Arrogance, Lines

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• The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Christ, Personal Relationships

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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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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• 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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• 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 man who knows the delight of the love of God ? when the soul warmed by grace, loves both God and her brother ? knows in part that 'the kingdom of God is within us'. Blessed is the soul that loves her brother, for our brother is our life.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Christian, Brother, Blessed

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• The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this means first of all is that each day Christ should reign among holy men. And this happens when the devil's power has been driven out of our hearts through the expulsion of sinful foulness and when God has begun to reign within us amid the good odors of virtue. With fornication vanquished, chastity rules; with anger overcome, peace is king; with pride under foot, humility is sovereign.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Kings, Father

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• Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however enduring, has an end, and glory and joy which, great as they are, will fade, and wealth that will perish with this present life, and we labour for the sake of such things; ought we not to seek the kingdom, glory, joy and riches which, as well as being all-surpassing, are unfading and endless, and ought we not to endure a little constraint in order to inherit it?

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Order, Long

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• One can take eternity and time to be predicates of God since, being the Ancient of Days, He is the cause of all time and eternity. Yet He is before time and beyond time and is the source of the variety of time and of the seasons. Or again, He precedes the eternal ages, for He is there before eternity and above eternity, and 'His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom' (Ps. 145:13). Amen.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Age, Causes

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• If the kingdom of God is within us and that is a kingdom of justice, of peace, and of joy then whoever remains with these virtues is certainly in the kingdom of God. By contrast, all who deal in unrighteousness, in discord, and in death-bearing gloom have taken their stand in the kingdom of the devil, in hell and in lifelessness. It is by these tokens that the kingdom of God or of the devil is recognized.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Taken, Justice

  "Conferences".

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• Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Wife, Body

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• Once upon a time, there was a Magic Kingdom made of hopes and childhood fantasies. A timeless place where every land was filled with wonder. A place where everyone who entered its gates would be given the gift of the young at heart.

  Julie Andrews

  Heart, Magic Kingdom, Land

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• All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Light, Darkness

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• Remember the economy of the Kingdom is simple. Every time we come to cross a new threshold, it costs us everything we now have. Every new step may cost us all the reputation & security we've accumulated up to that point. It costs us our life.

  John Wimber

  Simple, Steps, Cost

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• My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man...not to democracy, or blood; it's to a King & a Kingdom

  Derek Webb

  Country, Kings, Men

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• We need to proclaim the Gospel on every street corner, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing, even with our preaching, every kind of disease and wound.

  Pope Francis

  Healing, Needs, News

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.56, A&C Black

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• Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare themselves to be "under God" or not.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Jesus, Alternatives, World

  Gregory A. Boyd (2007). “The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church”, p.102, Zondervan

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• No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

  Elie Wiesel

  Gratitude, Mean, Night

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.172, Schocken

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• 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

  Grace, World, Abundance

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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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• The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

  Khalil Gibran

  Kings, Heart, Men

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.

  Charles Colson

  Glory, Duty, Posts

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• Exercise is your king, and nutrition is your queen. Together they create your fitness kingdom.

  Jack LaLanne

  Kings, Queens, Exercise

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• The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Faithful, Church

  J. I. Packer (2001). “Concise Theology: A Guide to Historic Christian Beliefs”, p.194, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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