#kingdom

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #kingdom




They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb...


Frederick Buechner


#god #kingdom #marriage-supper #mozart #mustard-seed

A heart as hard as granite was slowly transformed to a heart ready to give and receive compassion. The story of the prince does that to men. It breaks them down, removes the rubble, and builds a castle where there once was a prison.


Chuck Black


#kingdom-s-edge #men

Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.


Randy Alcorn


#giving #grace #investment-kingdom #need #stewardship

The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose; and the text of Scripture which he now most commonly quotes is, “The Kingdom of heaven is within you.” That text has been the stay and support of more Pharisees and prigs and self-righteous spiritual bullies than all the dogmas in creation; it has served to identify self-satisfaction with the peace that passes all understanding. And the text to be quoted in answer to it is that which declares that no man can receive the kingdom except as a little child. What we are to have inside is a childlike spirit; but the childlike spirit is not entirely concerned about what is inside. It is the first mark of possessing it that one is interested in what is outside. The most childlike thing about a child is his curiosity and his appetite and his power of wonder at the world. We might almost say that the whole advantage of having the kingdom within is that we look for it somewhere else.


G.K. Chesterton


#scripture #scripture

The Kingdom of God is the already but not yet". ~R. Alan Woods [1998]


R. Alan Woods


#eschatology #kingdom-of-god #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening. And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.


Peter Hitchens


#americans #anti-british-sentiment #braveheart #britons #eavesdropping

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.


Emmanuelle Beart


#france #i #kingdom #queen #servant

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.


George Best


#go #i #kingdom #lot #miss

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.


Sun Tzu


#country #disgrace #fame #fearing #general

Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.


John Bright


#bill #carry #cities #double #effort