Kingdoms Quotes - Page 22

• If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Women, History, Abuse

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.189, Gospel Light Publications

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• Your dreamers may dream it
  The shadow of a dream,
  Your sages may deem it
  A bubble on the stream;
  Yet our kingdom draweth nigher
  With each dawn and every day,
  Through the earthquake and the fire
  Love will find out the way.

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Dream, Fire

  Alfred Noyes (1920). “Collected Poems”

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• By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Animal, Goal

  Joseph Brodsky's opening remarks as United States Poet Laureate, October 1991.

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• However awful the storm of my disappointment, it's a response that belongs to me. It's my heart, after all. My territory, my kingdom. And since I'm the only one with the authority to surrender it, I can also take it back.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Disappointment, Heart, Storm

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• No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

  Elie Wiesel

  Gratitude, Night, Thankfulness

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• Except the Christ be born again tonight
  In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
  The world will never see his kingdom bright.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Christmas, Dream, Son

  Vachel Lindsay, Dennis Camp (1984). “The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings”, Spoon River Poetry Pr

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• Bikram Yoga will give you 'The Key to the Kingdom of Health'

  Bikram Choudhury

  Yoga, Keys, Giving

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• We are on this earth to become the Spirit, to be a channel of God's love and above all, to enter into the Kingdom of God.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Man in his madness doesn't realize that God has made him from amoeba to this stage for some purpose. There is a big purpose behind it. And the purpose is that now you have to know your Spirit, by which you enter into the Kingdom of God. You have to enter into the Kingdom of God. How? What is your passport? Is your Spirit. Because when the Spirit starts shining within you, you start transforming. You start transforming into a new being - into a new personality with a new awareness and you are a different person. Your priorities change.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• All the science of God is going to be exposed before you, completely. You are going to know the complete science of Divine Laws. They are very different from the ordinary laws we know. But first enter into the Kingdom of God. That's why I say first get your Self-Realization.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Jesus didn't save you so you could cruise to heaven in a luxury liner. He wants you to be useful in His kingdom! The moment you got saved, He enrolled you in His school the school of suffering and affliction.

  David Wilkerson

  Jesus, School, Adversity

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• Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.

  Anne Roiphe

  Pain, Confused, Love Is

  Anne Roiphe (1999). “1185 Park Avenue”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view.

  Asa Gray

  Philosophical, Science, Animal

  Asa Gray (1973). “Letters of Asa Gray”

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• Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Jesus, Hurt

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• No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Heaven, Kingdom Of Heaven

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• What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.

  Laozi

  Humility, Rivers, Heaven

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• Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a small kingdom humbles itself before a great kingdom, it shall win over that great kingdom. Thus the one humbles itself in order to attain, the other attains because it is humble. If the great kingdom has no further desire than to bring men together and to nourish them, the small kingdom will have no further desire than to enter the service of the other. But in order that both may have their desire, the great one must learn humility.

  Laozi

  Humble, Humility, Winning

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• Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on perpetual motion, one-liners, and flashbulbs but on Christ.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Agency, Vision, Depth

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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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• One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.

  Albert Einstein

  Jesus, Home, People

  "instein's God - Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God". Book by Robert N. Goldman (p. 98), 1997.

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• Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven!

  Pope Urban II

  War, Journey, Heaven

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• Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Asking, Intercessors

  Charles Spurgeon (1997). “Praying Successfully”, p.23, Whitaker House

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• Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Names, Asking

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• To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict. It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one's personal happiness.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Prayer, Suffering

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.421, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's strategems against prayer are three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer.

  William Gurnall

  Prayer, Plot, Three

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