Kingdoms Quotes - Page 40

• Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

  John Calvin

  Son, Anchors, Heaven

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• The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Helping, Significance, Kingdom Of God

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, p.567, Leo Tolstoy

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• Those who begin to exercise regularly and replace white flour, sugar and devitalized foods with live, organic natural foods begin to feel better immediately. Exercise is king, nutrition is queen -- put them together and you've got a kingdom.

  Jack LaLanne

  Kings, Queens, Exercise

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• There’s nothing more dangerous to the kingdom of darkness than a believer with the Word of God in their mouth.

  Joyce Meyer

  Darkness, Mouths, Dangerous

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2012

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• Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Steel

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.85, Bethany House

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• The primary truth that any government will be able to stand on is that God is King, not man. The Lord created this world for His purpose, and only those who are aligned with His purpose will have the authority that can stand any pressures of the times we are entering. We can build our lives on this kingdom and nothing that happens will shake us.

  Rick Joyner

  Kings, Men, Purpose

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• The needed change within us is God's work, not ours. The demand is for an inside job, and only God can work from the inside. We cannot attain or earn this righteousness of the kingdom of God: it is a grace that is given.

  Richard J. Foster

  Jobs, Grace, Demand

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.

  Richard Rohr

  Profound, Listening, Suffering

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• If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Home, Government

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia Publishing House

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• The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Teach, Rules Of Life

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• Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

  Philip Yancey

  Heaven, Desperation, Draws

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.117, Harper Collins

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• The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Inspirational, Heaven, Electricity

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• He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heaven, Doe, This Life

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Generosity, Absurd

  N. T. Wright (2004). “Luke for Everyone”, p.80, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, Desire, Doe

  R. C. Sproul (2005). “What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics”, p.159, Baker Books

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• 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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