#kingdom

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#folly #kingdom #london #many #mistake

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#define #defined #eat #eaten #human

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#attacks #because #center #highest #kingdom

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. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#count #crowned #heaven #himself #his

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#cities #fills #heaven #itself #kingdoms

My mind's my kingdom. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#mind

This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#country #far #heaven #kingdom #last

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#citizen #consumption #democratic #equality #fraternity

What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#kingdom-of-god #life

All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#kingdom #prognostication #inspirational