Quotes about kingdom-of-god
Lailah Gifty Akita -
God is King of kings.
Nadia Bolz-Weber - Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
The Kingdom of God is a tricky concept, and I was always taught it referred to our heavenly reward for being good, which, now that I actually read the Bible for myself, makes very little sense. Others say that the Kingdom of God is another way of talking about the church, and still others say that it's the dream God has for the wholeness of the world, a dream being made true little by little among us right here, right now. My answer? All of the above.
Thurman L. Faison - To The Spiritually Inclined
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".
Alexander Schmemann - For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word 'dimension' because it seems the best way to indicate the manner of our sacramental entrance into the risen life of Christ. Color transparencies 'come alive' when viewed in three dimensions instead of two. The presence of the added dimension allows us to see much better the actual reality of what has been photographed. In very much the sam
Sherry K. White - Walking in the Father's Riches: The Prosperity of Sonship
Righteousness is the truth revealed and working in you.
Sherry K. White - Walking in the Father's Riches: The Prosperity of Sonship
Those who look behind will never see beyond.
Sunday Adelaja -
We are not here to build our empire only but also to help people discover the kingdom of God
Abhijit Naskar - Oxygen & Nanak
I don’t see doctrines, when I talk about religions. All I see are different experiential realities of the one and the same neuronal Kingdom of God.
Abhijit Naskar -
If history has shown anything, it is that where there is a God, there is an institution trying to lock up that God in its lifeless structure of orthodoxy, in order to have authority over people and sell tickets to the Kingdom of that God. Thus emerged all the pompous lies about the extraterrestrial Kingdom of God or Heaven.
Abhijit Naskar - In Search of Divinity: Journey to the Kingdom of Conscience
Before I was a Scientist, I was a Monk. And before I was a Monk, I was a naive young mind with ever- flowing streams of questions. And one of those questions, that always used to create intense ripples of curiosity in my psyche, was - Does God exist? And has anyone seen or experienced him?
Sherry K. White -
People have a hunger to experience the spectacular, but the Lord is supernatural.
Sherry K. White -
Going back to legalistic roots contaminates the blood of Jesus.
Abhijit Naskar -
The argument against faith is all based upon the rigorous analysis of the scriptures, and not upon the objective observation of the actual individual sensation of faith. Historical experiences of the Kingdom of God gave rise to all the scriptures in the world, but the scriptures themselves don’t account for the actual globally prevalent psychological element of faith or divinity in the human mind. Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal c
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The key to knowledge is the kingdom of God.
Sunday Adelaja -
God gave you the knowledge and ability for you to advance His Kingdom through your work
Abhijit Naskar - We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a great extent in my work “Principia Humanitas”.
Karla Perry - Back to the Future: Rebuilding America's Stability
The kingdom of God works in all spheres of culture, whether church, family, education, government, arts, business, or media. It is time to stop operating under the mindset that these spheres ought to be separated into secular and Christian, hoarding all the ‘sanctified spheres’ into the church, thereby leaving the world struggling in a vacuum of death. When we suck all the living water into the church, the world is left to die of thirst.
Swami Dhyan Giten -
Sermon of the MountsMatthew 5AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO THE MOUNTAINS, AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM. The multitudes, the masses, the crowd, is the lowest state of consciousness. It is a deep ignorance and sleep. If you want to relate and communicate with the masses, you have to come down to their level. That is why whenever you go into the masses, the crowd, you start to feel suffocated. This suffocation is physical and psychological, beacuse you relate to peo
Abhijit Naskar - In Search of Divinity: Journey to the Kingdom of Conscience
If there is a God you must see it (literally), even clearer than you see this page, otherwise it is better not to believe. It is better to be an outspoken atheist, than a hypocrite.
Swami Dhyan Giten -
A friend of mine commented yesterday that she has experienced similar insights that I talked about that all enlightened Masters and founders of religion are actually talking about the same ocean, the same invisible life source, the same God. She also said that she worked in a Christan environment at the time that she received these insights, and when she tried to share these insights with the Christians she was accused of being "impure" and of being associated with the "Devil". Christians hold o
Sunday Adelaja -
A country experiences regeneration and change only when it lives by the principles of the kingdom of God
Stanley Hauerwas - In Good Company: The Church as Polis
The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.
Timothy J. Keller -
Jesus, unlike the founder of any other major faith, holds out hope for ordinary human life. Our future is not an ethereal, impersonal form of consciousness. We will not float through the air, but rather will eat, embrace, sing, laugh, and dance in the kingdom of God, in degrees of power, glory, and joy that we can't at the present imagine.
Sunday Adelaja -
The only strategy to protect and preserve a nation is to establish the golden rules and principles of the Kingdom of God in the society.
Abhijit Naskar - Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
The Kingdom of God is, in reality, the mental kingdom of a conscientious, compassionate and courageous human.
Abhijit Naskar - God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
Even though the world hails Joan of Arc as some sort of hero, which she undoubtedly was, what pains me the most is that her pathological condition ultimately led to her demise at the age of only nineteen.
Abhijit Naskar -
Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology.
Abhijit Naskar - In Search of Divinity: Journey to the Kingdom of Conscience
Discover the God in Life itself. And one who does, becomes a better version of himself or herself. If the entrepreneur thinks that he or she is the God, he or she will be a better entrepreneur. If the student thinks he or she is the God, he or she will be a better student. If the Scientist thinks that he or she is the God, he or she will be a better Scientist, and so on.
Sunday Adelaja -
Christians should use their prosperity for the glory of the kingdom of God
Sherry K. White -
Believers infiltrate the enemy’s territory with knowledge and power.
Swami Dhyan Giten -
When I speak about Jesus Christ, I do not speak about Christianity. Christianity has basically nothing to do with Jesus. The spirit of Christ can not be organized. Then it will not liberate you.Christ is the very essence of religion. Christ is the culmination of all human aspirations. In Christ all the aspirations of humanity are fulfilled.Christ celebrates life, he loves life, he is a song and a dance. He is also transcendental. When you come closer to him, you will find that his inner being is
Sunday Adelaja -
Christians have the spiritual mandate to establish the Kingdom of God in their own lives and in their society.
Robin Bremer - & Other Normal Christian Experience: Being Led by the Holy Spirit
Christianity is a daily supernatural experience with your Father God not a setof rules
Ron Brackin -
In the world, success is measured in terms of legacy, what we leave behind. In God's kingdom, success is measured by what we send on ahead.
A.W. Tozer - The Pursuit of God
The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being sense its kinship to God and leaps us in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God.
Urban T. Holmes III - What Is Anglicanism?
There is no doubt that the biblical concept of the Kingdom calls for a ministry to the suffering, the imprisoned, the oppressed, the hungry and whomever is dehumanized by an unjust society. In abstract, almost all of us can affirm this with enthusiasm. When it is the vocation, however, of one of our number to make this Gospel imperative, a matter demanding and requiring us to change our comfortable ways, then many of us fall away. The prophet has never been popular among his other contemporaries
N.K.David -
The first step to that kingdom of God within is to find peace within even among chaos.
Sherry K. White - Walking in the Father's Riches: The Prosperity of Sonship
Apostles go into new territory and establish God’s kingdom.
Randy Alcorn - Possessions and Eternity
It's curious that the Church has become the most tightfisted at the very time in history when God has provided most generously. There's considerable talk about the end of the age, and many people seem to believe that Christ will return in their lifetime. But why is it that expecting Christ's return hasn't radically influenced our giving? Why is it that people who believe in the soon return of Christ are so quick to build their own financial empires--which prophecy tells us will perish--and so sl
R. Alan Streett -
Many theologians believe the Gospel writers include miracle stories in order to prove that Jesus is divine. But miracles are not proof of deity. Many Old Testament prophets heal people and even raise them from the dead, yet they are mere mortals. Jesus's miracle ministry is a demonstration that the kingdom of God has arrived. Heaven on Earth, pg. 105.
Gayle D. Erwin - Spirit Style
Many confuse the United States with the Church or the Constitution with the Bible. They feel that the good of the United States is the same as the good of the Kingdom of God. Some feel that the Constitution of the United States is as infallible as the Bible. However, one with wisdom notice that some things are Kingdom principles and some are not.
Unarine Ramaru -
Raising a child whether yours or not, is being anointed by God to be the guardian of his Kingdom in a form of a child.
Sunday Adelaja -
The principles of the Kingdom of God make it possible to live life at its highest level.
Sunday Adelaja -
If we want to abide and move in the Kingdom of God, we have to become obedient to theprinciples of the Kingdom
Van Harden -
[Salvation] is a life-changing experience when it happens, and if our life isn’t changed by it, then it either didn’t happen at all or we are so caught up in this world, spending so much time, effort, and emotion on the red circle, that we are ignoring the permanent, eternal, gigantic, blue part of the map in which we will forever be.
Abhijit Naskar - In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
You the human are the highest temple of God. I would rather worship you, than worship any temple, image or book.
Alinani joe -
Don't be a spectator in the kingdom of God , find something that you can do , at-least even going to church is one of them
Adam LiVecchi -
All leadership in the Kingdom is by example.
Alexander Schmemann -
The Orthodox liturgy begins with the solemn doxology: "Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages on ages." From the beginning the destination is announced: the journey is to the Kingdom. This is where we are going- and not symbolically, but really. In the language of the Bible, which is the language of the church, to bless the Kingdom is not simply to acclaim it. It is to declare it to be the goal, the end of all our desires and interests, of
Sunday Adelaja -
By having the Holy Spirit inside us, we can spread the Kingdom of God wherever we go
Sunday Adelaja -
The kingdom mentality should be discovered, cultivated and consciously guide the way of life
Sherry K. White - Walking in the Father's Riches: The Prosperity of Sonship
You give because the love of God has been poured into your heart, not to satisfy the law.
Fred C. White - Walking in the Father's Riches: The Prosperity of Sonship
Finances flow along the lines of relationships in the kingdom of God.
Sherry K. White - Walking in the Father's Riches: The Prosperity of Sonship
If you want to prosper, prosper God.
Sherry K. White -
The apostolic gift to the body of Christ brings order and maturity.
David Brazzeal - Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul
Although I had nothing to offer in return, I came to understand that there was something beneficially reciprocal happening to the people who were blessing me. For a few minutes, they suspended their normal egocentric lives, placed a fellow human being in higher priority than themselves, and expressed their hopes for the other's peace and well-being. In so doing, they inevitably lived life on a higher plane, if only for a few moments. It always smelled like the kingdom of God to me.
Stasi Eldredge - Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You
We want to be women who advance. The kingdom of God is advancing, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Don't you want to advance along with it? Don't you want to help it to advance? And don't you want to advance into the deeper realms of the heart of God? Advance into more healing, more deliverance, more intimacy, more life? Fear makes us retreat. Love causes it to advance.
Ellen G. White - The Desire of Ages
Christ was treated as we deserve that we may be treated as He deserves. He was condemned for our sins, in which He had no share, that we might be justified by His righteousness, in which we had no share. He suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which was His. 'By His stripes we are healed.
Sunday Adelaja -
A man’s main purpose in life is to find his ground, till it and care for it, bringing the Kingdom ofGod there and establishing the Lordship of Jesus Christ over it.
Fred Rogers -
I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.
Fulton J. Sheen - The Prodigal World
Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who has forgotten God. Hence no manner of economic or political readjustment can possibly save our civilization; we can be saved only by a renovation of the inner man, only by a purging of our hearts and souls; for only by seeking first the Kingdom of God and His Justice will all these other things be added unto us.
Ken Wytsma - Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things
The kingdom of God is an upside-down kingdom. It beckons us to gamble all, to trust radically, to come and die so that we might live--to give our lives away. Giving life away is a paradox. It's losing so we can win. It's giving so we can receive. It's risking for security. It's faith. The kingdom of God means living that tension.
Sunday Adelaja -
Life in the Kingdom of God is accepting and knowing Jesus Christ, it is studying and applyingHis teachings to your life.
Richard Rohr - Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.
Sunday Adelaja -
Nobody can truely become a leader, unless he has performed feats for God. It is only possible to ascend to spiritual heights in the Kingdom of God, if you fully exert yourself.
Sunday Adelaja -
Make a decision to perform something great, something that requires skill, something special for the Kingdom of God.
Beni Johnson -
So many of us have believed that we need to labor and perform for God so that we can gain an identity, so that we might be accepted. But in the Kingdom, we start off accepted.
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according the the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.
Sunday Adelaja -
The kingdom of God is a fragment of heaven
Van Harden - Life in the Purple Wedge!
If there is a ‘this world,’ there must be a ‘that world!’ There must be another world!
Van Harden - Life in the Purple Wedge!
Personally, I’m choosing to dwell upon the glory of the kingdom of which I am a part, even though I’m still a witness and sometimes a victim of the junk in ‘this’ world.
Stanley Hauerwas - Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God's kingdom transcend those of Caesar, and that the main political task of the church is the formation of people who see clearly the cost of discipleship and are willing to pay the price.
John Willis Zumwalt - Passion for the Heart of God
The Church has no reason to exist except for the advancement of His Kingdom into areasit has never been before!
Sunday Adelaja -
Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that will make us have quality churches that will make us bring kingdom of God to the earth.
Toba Beta -
I believe Jesus wasn't thinking about miracle when He performed it. He's just doing normal activities as he did in His heavenly kingdom.
Abhijit Naskar - Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. Love is holiness, discrimination is sin.
George Eldon Ladd - A Theology of the New Testament
The presence of the messianic salvation is also seen in Jesus' miracles of healing, for which the Greek word meaning "to save" is used. The presence of the Kingdom of God in Jesus meant deliverance from hemorrhage (Mk 5:34), blindness (Mk 10:52), demon possession (Lk 8:36), and even death itself (Mk 5:23). Jesus claimed that these deliverances were evidences of the presence of the messianic salvation (Mt 11:4-5). They were pledges of the life of the eschatological Kingdom that will finally mean
George Eldon Ladd - A Theology of the New Testament
Jesus’ message of the Kingdom of God is the announcement by word and deed that God is acting and manifesting dynamically his redemptive will in history. God is seeking out sinners; he is inviting them to enter into the messianic blessing; he is demanding of them a favorable response to his gracious offer. God has again spoken. A new prophet has appeared, indeed one who is more than a prophet, one who bring to people the very blessings he promises.
George Eldon Ladd - A Theology of the New Testament
The mission of Jesus brought not a new teaching but a new event. It brought to people an actual foretaste of the eschatological salvation. Jesus did not promise the forgiveness of sins; he bestowed it. He did not simple assure people of the future fellowship of the Kingdom; he invited them into fellowship with himself as the bearer of the Kingdom. He did not merely promise them vindication in the day of judgment; he bestowed upon them the status of a present righteousness. He not only taught an
George Eldon Ladd - A Theology of the New Testament
The miracles of healing, important as they were, were not an end in themselves. They did not constitute the highest good of the messianic salvation. This fact is illustrated by the arrangement of the phrases in Matthew 11:4-5. Greater than deliverance of the blind and the lame, the lepers and the deaf, even than raising of the dead, was the preaching of the good news to the poor. This “gospel” was the very presence of Jesus himself, and the joy and fellowship that he brought to the poor.
Ken Baker -
The call to “take the land” ...is not a call to a new political, cultural or geographical dominance. It is Kingdom of God territory. It is the will of the Eternal God being done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Ronnie McBrayer - The Jesus Tribe: Following Christ in the Land of the Empire
Violence promises us something we all deeply desire, something we genuinely want; violence promises us peace. Violence promises us, that in the end, when the last battle is fought, the last bomb is dropped, and the last enemy is slain, we will have what we always dreamed of – safety, a world without suffering, death or bloodshed; a world at rest. Yet, these are the very things Christ offers with the Kingdom of God. A world where the lamb will lay down with the lion, where swords are beaten into
Praying Medic - Divine Healing Made Simple: Simplifying the supernatural to make healing & miracles a part of your everyday life
Jesus was the original street healer. He traveled the streets of Israel on foot, staying wherever He found lodging. During His travels He told people the secrets of their hearts, healed all who were sick and demon-possessed, raised the dead and shared the mysteries of the kingdom of God. This was His lifestyle and it could be yours.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder -
Jesus did not define the kingdom as being in the hearts of the Pharisees or anyone else. The kingdom is an objective reality when the King is present.
Hugh Halter -
Jesus is not saying, “Make sure you pray a prayer of repentance, start going to church, and wait for Me to come back.” He is saying, “You can live a radically different life because there’s a new world order that just broke in, so stop walking in the direction you’re going, turn 180 degrees, and walk toward Me and life in the kingdom of God.”Halter, Hugh (2014-02-01). Flesh: Bringing the Incarnation Down to Earth (p. 53). David C. Cook. Kindle Edition.
Matt Chandler -
This passage, by the way, doesn't just give us the comparative negative of hell, but it translates well into a theology of suffering. With these words of Jesus in mind, I can now know that it is better never to hold my children, it is better never to run my fingers through my wife's hair, it is better not to be able to brush my own teeth, it is better never to be able to drive a car, it is better to be paralyzed and never feel anything from the neck down, and it is better to have stage III anapl
Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK -
A present reality, experienced in this life that begins in you, is known as; the kingdom of God.
Abhijit Naskar -
The Kingdom of God is an earthly experience which manifests in an unearthly manner.
John Shea - A Star at Its Rising: Advent Meditations
The more deeply one enters into the experience of the sacred the more one is aware of one’s own personal evil and the destructive forces in society. The fact that one is alive to what is possible for humankind sharpens one’s sense that we are fallen people. The awareness of sin is the inevitable consequence of having met grace... This grace-judgment dynamic reveals that the center of Christian life is repentance. This does not mean that the distinguishing mark of the Christian is breast-beating.
Robert Moffat -
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory ofHim to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity.
Van Harden - Life in the Purple Wedge!
As we Christians strive to be more influenced by God’s kingdom than by this world, we’re reminded we will sometimes slip, but ‘if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness’ (1 John 1:9).
Van Harden - Life in the Purple Wedge!
Remember, as a believer, you are already in God’s kingdom, even if you are still standing on this earth.
Van Harden - Life in the Purple Wedge!
Everyone in heaven is in God’s kingdom. They are in the 100 percent blue portion of the map. But not everyone in God’s kingdom is in heaven. Is it really possible to live in two worlds at the same time? Absolutely! If you are a Christian, you already are!