Kingdom Quotes

• As I have indicated, Paul (along with other apostles) taught that Jesus was soon to return from heaven in judgment on the earth. The coming end of all things was a source of continuous fascination for early Christians, who by and large expected that God would soon intervene in the affairs of the world to overthrow the forces of evil and establish his good kingdom, with Jesus at its head, here on earth.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Jesus
  • Heaven
  • Judgment

• Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Magic
  • Obsessed
  • Searching

• I am convinced that Jesus didn’t come to start a new religion; he came to proclaim a new kingdom.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Jesus
  • Religion
  • Kingdom

• The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Rules
  • Experienced
  • Sinners

• If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Pray
  • Kingdom

• Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Heaven
  • God Is
  • Settle

• A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, he's up!"

  

  Tony Evans
  • Morning
  • Devil
  • Floor

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