#kingdom

What is absolutely clear is that we have, with the U.S., an extradition treaty which is important, I believe it is an important treaty, for both sides, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a treaty that I believe is balanced and we work on that basis. ↗

— Theresa May

#balanced #basis #believe #both #both sides

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. ↗

— William Penn

#double #humble #humility #jewel #kingdom

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom. ↗

— Thomas Coventry

#kingdom #walls #wooden

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#christ #kingdom #more #shed #than

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#kingdoms #less #men #three #together

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

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