It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.
God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.
The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.
I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.
We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.
The coming of the kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, 'Look, here it is,' or, 'There it is. ' For behold, the kingdom of God is among you.
Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.
The Kingdom must be advanced not merely extensively, but also intensively. The Church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man
Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.