Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.
Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.
So live for the kingdom of God. Seek to bring glory to Jesus Christ and the Lord will use you. It is my prayer, my constant and daily prayer, that God would keep me useable.
You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.
If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.
Each of us has to face the matter—either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.
Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder" lover you should have come over-
The Kingdom of God is Within You.
All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.
The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom
I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.
The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.
The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.