Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.
Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.
A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.
Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions. Macedon is too small for you.
After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.
The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.
Be careful dear that you don’t end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom
The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.
The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God. It is, however, not an end but an inception, for now begins the glorious pursuit, the heart's happy exploration of the infinite riches of the Godhead.
The United Kingdom Is Not A Country That Anybody Can Be Proud Of
In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i. e. , price, but an intrinsic worth, i. e. , a dignity.
The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.
When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher.
By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost.
I have my FaceBook. And if you're naughty, I'll banish you from my kingdom on there.
In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.
To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.