#kingdom

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven. ↗

— Lactantius

#both #common #heaven #hint #jupiter

The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them. ↗

— William Laud

#bless #blood #charity #christian #kingdom

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. ↗

— Max Lerner

#gates #hope #into #kingdom #leads

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#dies #kingdom #matters #nobody #where

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death." ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#comes #condition #death #earth #heart

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#drop #handing #hope #i #i can

The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#chained #christ #destroyed #down #earth

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#first #funds #given #god #insist

You make kingdoms and castles on your own. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#kingdoms #make #own #you #your

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#affairs #been #court #crowns #designs