Kingdoms Quotations

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

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics

If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me.' and 'Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.

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

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

My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss.

Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

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

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.

Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God

We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

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

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan. I literally love every single film. He hasn't made a bad film; I've seen every single one. They've all been brilliant, from 'Bottle Rocket' up to 'Moonrise Kingdom,' they've all been wonderful.

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.

The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

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

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

My kingdom for a more embodied body

The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.

The Kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God. It is, however, not an end but an inception, for now begins the glorious pursuit, the heart's happy exploration of the infinite riches of the Godhead.

The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill.

You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided up America into kingdoms, is that right?

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.

Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

The kingdom of God must never be reduced to talk, ideas and principles. The kingdom of God is power

When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom

Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.

My Mind To Me a Kingdom Is.

Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know something of the population of their saline empire, especially of those parts of it immediately in contact with their terrestrial domain, and the coasts of the Continent to which our United Kingdom appertains.

Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.

There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

I am already bound unto an husband, which is the kingdom of England.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it.

I trust in the Lord God Almighty ... that he will not take away from me the cup of his redemption, but firmly hope to drink from it today in his kingdom.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are

We are doing well, notwithstanding all our failings and weaknesses; but the Lord would like to have us a little more diligent; he would like us to cleave a little more closely to the things of his kingdom, have more of his Spirit, and know more of him and of one another, that complete and perfect confidence can be restored.

It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.

Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

Kingdom Holding will continue to achieve strong results and to distribute dividends

One of the most wonderful things about being a Christian is that I don't ever get up in the morning and wonder if what I do matters. I live every day to the fullest because I can live it through Christ and I know no matter what I do today, I'm going to do something to advance the Kingdom of God.

Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.

We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.

The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all

On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.

For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?