In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.
The saints were people like all of us. Many of them came out of great sins, but by repentance they attained the Kingdom of Heaven. And everyone who comes there comes through repentance, which the merciful Lord has given us through His sufferings.
All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.
Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.
The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.
The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise himself from his sins [in baptism (Col. 2:11-12)] so that he can be saved. . . for no one ascends into the kingdom of heaven except through the sacrament of baptism. . . "Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God"
When you understand the values of God's kingdom, you will best understand His agenda. 4 However, it is my conviction that the message of the kingdom, and the values therein, are sorely lacking in understanding today.
We could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet's guest, his world was his own kingdom, reached, as one of the poems told us, through the 'Ring of Words.
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world
The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.
By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost.
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.