Kingdom Of Heaven Quotes - Page 2

• The Kingdom of God is Within You.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Jesus, Christ Consciousness, Gnosis

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “The Non-Fiction of Leo Tolstoy: (Includes A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, A Letter to a Hindu, Youth, Tolstoy on Shakespeare, What to Do)”, p.138, Golgotha Press

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• God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry.

  Balian of Ibelin

  Worry, Needs, Lord

  "Fictional character: Balian of Ibelin". "Kingdom of Heaven", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Atheist, Long

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• Be brave and upright that God may love thee; speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death; safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.

  Balian of Ibelin

  Brave, May, Speak

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• And so one may be without connection with any church, and even without connection with any established religion, and yet be in spirit, hence in reality, a much truer Christian than hosts of those who profess to be His most ardent followers, as indeed Jesus Himself so many times says. "By their fruits ye shall know them," said He. "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Christian, Jesus, Father

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “Thoughts I Met on the Highway and Other Truths”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• We do not have to die to enter the kingdom of Heaven, In fact we have to be fully alive. When we are truly alive we see that the tree is part of Heaven and we are also part of Heaven. The whole universe is conspiring to reveal this to us. Peace is available and when we touch it everything becomes real. We become ourselves, fully alive in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Tree, Heaven

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• You can never argue anyone into the Kingdom of Heaven, you cannot argue anyone anywhere. The only result of arguing is to prove to your own mind that you are right and the other fellow wrong. You cannot argue for truth; but immediately Incarnate Truth is presented, a want awakens in the soul which only God can meet.

  Oswald Chambers

  Heaven, Soul, Mind

  Oswald Chambers (1936). “The Moral Foundations of Life: A Series of Talks on the Ethical Principles of the Christian Life”

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• Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.

  Edward Eggleston

  Teacher, Jesus, Children

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 49, 1895.

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• We have in effect renounced our Worldly citizenship when we receive the King of Kings and the Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords, God of Heaven, Son of Righteousness and the Kingdom of Heaven into our hearts, and have made the Heavenly City our Home!

  David Berg

  Kings, Heart, Home

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• Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all "fulness of blessing," both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment.

  Saint Basil

  Children, Father, Son

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• There is only one way into the Kingdom of Heaven, but there are many ways into the human heart: and the Church of Christ, ln its mission of promulgating truth and turning souls of righteousness, has legitimate use for every avenue of the heart.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Heart, Heaven, Soul

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• No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of heaven, no one has heard about his realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existenceDeath is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Night, Waiting, Heaven

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• The kingdom of heaven is for the heirs - and if children, then heirs; if born again, then heirs. Wherefore it is said expressly, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. By this one word, down goes all carnal privilege of being born of flesh and blood, and of the will of man. Canst thou produce the birthright?

  John Bunyan

  Children, Men, Blood

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1323, Delphi Classics

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• We become a Co-worker with God at every step of the spiritual path. This is a universal law. There is great hope here for those who are sincere in finding out who and what they are, becoming a Co-worker with God, and realising the Kingdom of Heaven while still living in the body. The key lies within you.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Lying, Keys

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• The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Blessed, Order, Punishment

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• Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?

  J. D. Salinger

  Jesus, Stupid, Heaven

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.

  John Cassian

  Humility, Mercy Of God, Grace And Mercy

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• The kingdom of heaven is within us. The Jewish idea was a kingdom of heaven upon this earth. That was not the idea of Jesus.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Ideas, Heaven

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.299, Manonmani Publishers

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• we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice.The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm o childhood it makes no sense to go on living.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Blessed, Magic Moments

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• It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

  Mark Twain

  Eye, Men, Heaven

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Water, Heaven

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.739, Aeterna Press

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• It is indeed remarkable that the nature of our dealings with our fellowmen will determine, in large measure, our status in the kingdom of heaven....We may attend to rites and rituals and yet overlook the weightier matters such as brotherly kindness, honesty, mercy, virtue, and integrity. Let us never forget that if we omit them from our lives we may be found unworthy to come into His presence.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Kindness, Honesty, Integrity

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• ...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

  Bede Griffiths

  Spiritual, Powerful, People

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• The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Beautiful, People, Heaven

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• Only he to whom God is present in everything and who employs his reason in the highest degree and has enjoyment in it knows anything of true peace and has a real kingdom of heaven.

  Meister Eckhart

  Peace, Real, Heaven

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