#kingdom

For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development. ↗

— Michael Taylor

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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. ↗

— John Burroughs

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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia. ↗

— Democritus

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I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. ↗

— Henry IV

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Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#absurdly #all things #become #beneath #earth

If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well. ↗

— David Petraeus

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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. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#kingdom-of-god #change

People have a hunger to experience the spectacular, but the Lord is supernatural. ↗

— Sherry K. White

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Let us keep in mind that we do not have to go to the scriptures inorder to approach God. We do not have to find the right scripture inorder to talk to God". ↗

— Thurman L. Faison

#emerging-church #faith #god #kingdom-of-god #new-thought

I would I were in the kingdom of heaven if it be as you and Mr. Graham take it for!" said Clementina. "You must be in it, my lady, or you couldn't wish it to be such as it is." "Can one be in it and yet seem to himself to be out of it. Malcolm?" "So many are out of it that seem to be in it, my lady, that one might well imagine it the other way around with some. ↗

— George MacDonald

#kingdom #imagination