Elizabeth I
Queen
"I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England."
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Kingdoms
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom."
Witness Lee
Christian Minister
"Only when we live, walk, behave, and have our being altogether in our spirit, not in our natural man, are we in the kingdom of God and, in reality, are the kingdom of God."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God."
Haile Selassie
Emperor
"Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment."
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"The Kingdom of Heaven is within you."
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"We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst."
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". . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor."
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"My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys therein I find, that it excels all other bliss."
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"If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go."
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"Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks."
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"The kingdom of God must never be reduced to talk, ideas and principles. The kingdom of God is power"
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"Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy."
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"If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured."
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"Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy."
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"Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere."
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"By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost."
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"Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small."
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"Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced."
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"My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather."
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"I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia."
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"Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union."
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"When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king."
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"He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life."
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"Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ."
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