For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you (Luke 17:20-21). pages, Rating: As though the father of a family, knowing how he ought to behave at his age, should yet continue through habit and thoughtlessness to live in the same childish way as he did in boyhood.”, “The man who is at a lower level but is moving onward toward perfection is living a more moral, a better life, is more fully carrying out Christ's teaching, than the man on a much higher level of morality who is not moving onward toward perfection.”, The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Revised Edition of Original Version. Instead of that we begin by establishing among them new markets for our commerce, with the sole aim of our own profit; then we appropriate their lands, i. e., rob them; then we sell them spirits, tobacco, and opium, i. e., corrupt them; then we establish our morals among them, teach them the use of violence and new methods of destruction, i, e., we teach them nothing but the animal law of strife, below which man cannot sink, and we do all we can to conceal from them all that is Christian in us. or, lo there! Born date September 9, 1828 Jesus was once asked when the kingdom of God would come. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit and we have the mind of Christ. ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much the diffusion of Christianity through the world, as the disregard of this command by men calling themselves Christians, and the permission of war and violence to Christians.” Just behind your perceptions, just behind your thoughts, just behind your feelings, He is. 20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! They all know it. We are just like ignorant doctors who put a man, recovering from illness by the force of nature, into the most unfavorable conditions of hygiene, and dose him with the most deleterious drugs, and then assert triumphantly that their hygiene and their drugs saved his life, when the patient would have been well long before if they had left him alone.”, “Though the need of a change of life is preached by the religious leaders and recognized and realized by the most intelligent men, the majority, in spite of their reverential attitude to their leaders, that is, their faith in their teaching, continue to be guided by the old theory of life in their present complex existence. ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.” It is the same with the life of humanity. Each quote represents a book that is I want to begin by critiquing a popular privatized, internal, individualistic interpretation of this passage. Only gather the people together on a large scale, and a battle of ten thousand men becomes an innocent action. ― Kurt Vonnegut, quote from Timequake, “Неприятные хлопоты всегда хочется отложить на завтра. Heresy is the opinion of the men who do not admit the infallibility of the Church's truth.”, “There are two inevitable conditions of life, confronting all of us, which destroy its whole meaning; (1) death, which may at any moment pounce upon each of us; and (2) the transitoriness of all our works, which so soon pass away and leave no trace. 352 And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness. One represents pride, violence, self-assertion, stagnation, and death; the other, meekness, penitence, humility, progress, and life. We cannot serve these two masters; we have to choose between them.”, “To bring under the sway of Christianity savage nations who do not attack us and whom we have therefore no excuse for oppressing, we ought before all things to leave them in peace, and in case we need or wish to enter into closer relations with them, we ought only to influence them by Christian manners and Christian teaching, setting them the example of the Christian virtues of patience, meekness, endurance, purity, brotherhood, and love. philosophy by which we live. Repent, and believe in the gospel." They all know it. - People's Bible Romans Chapter 14:17 17For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. 253. When Christ says to turn the other cheek, Tolstoy asserts that Christ means to abolish violence, even the defensive kind, and to give up revenge. We also accept Therefore, It is something we experience, articulate, and do. Any kind of love.” As the means of extermination are improved, the means of reducing men who hold the state conception of life to submission can be improved to correspond. —Jesus. ~ Bible Quote; Great Work quote by James C. Uwandu – The Degree you Need to Work for GOD and to be Qualify for HIS Kingdom is Water and the HOLY SPIRIT Baptism. Soon it passes away, leaving no trace. ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “The man who is at a lower level but is moving onward toward perfection is living a more moral, a better life, is more fully carrying out Christ's teaching, than the man on a much higher level of morality who is not moving onward toward perfection.” ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “a whole series of arguments and texts showing that war—that is, the wounding and” We are just like ignorant doctors who put a man, recovering from illness by the force of nature, into the most unfavorable conditions of hygiene, and dose him with the most deleterious drugs, and then assert triumphantly that their hygiene and their drugs saved his life, when the patient would have been well long before if they had left him alone.” ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “A man cannot get rid of the responsibility, for his own actions.” Ro … ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, Leo Tolstoy And by this means all citizens are under arms to support the iniquities practiced upon them; all citizens have become their own, “Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it and fills it with props and buttresses and planks and scaffolding that he manages to keep the house standing only by making it impossible to live in it.”, “All the methods of appointing authorities that have been tried, divine right, and election, and heredity, and balloting, and assemblies and parliaments and senate—all have proved ineffectual. ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “So it would be, were it not for the law of inertia, as immutable a force in men and nations as in inanimate bodies. We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and Is not the life more than meat, and the body than rainment” ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.” And then… and then. Mark 1:14-15 Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only cannot carry out the enactments of the external law, when they are not in agreement with the divine law of love which he acknowledges (as is usually the case with state obligations), he cannot even recognize the duty of obedience to anyone or anything whatever, he cannot recognize the duty of what is called allegiance.” ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “To bring under the sway of Christianity savage nations who do not attack us and whom we have therefore no excuse for oppressing, we ought before all things to leave them in peace, and in case we need or wish to enter into closer relations with them, we ought only to influence them by Christian manners and Christian teaching, setting them the example of the Christian virtues of patience, meekness, endurance, purity, brotherhood, and love. ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “[...most men do not try] to recognize the truth, but to persuade themselves that the life they are leading, which is what they like and are used to, is a life perfectly consistent with truth.” There was one road, now thereare two, and he must make his choice.” ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “People often think the question of non-resistance to evil by forceis a theoretical one, which can be neglected. ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “The rivalry of the European states in constantly increasing their forces has reduced them to the necessity of having recourse to universal military service, since by that means the greatest possible number of soldiers is obtained at the least possible expense. And these very men whom we have corrupted and brutalized by every means, we bring forward as a proof that one cannot deal with criminals except by brute force. As the world communicates more and Then came these striking words: “Neither shall they say, Lo here! Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.”, “In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...”, “There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.”, “Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.”, “And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only cannot carry out the enactments of the external law, when they are not in agreement with the divine law of love which he acknowledges (as is usually the case with state obligations), he cannot even recognize the duty of obedience to anyone or anything whatever, he cannot recognize the duty of what is called allegiance.”, “If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “The history of mankind is crowded with evidences proving that physical coercion is not adapted to moral regeneration, and that the sinful dispositions of men can be subdued only by love; that evil can be exterminated only by good; that it is not safe to rely upon the strength of an arm to preserve us from harm; that there is great security in being gentle, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy; that it is only the meek who shall inherit the earth; for those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.” and to carry with us the author’s best ideas. Everyone knows on the contrary that men in authority—be they emperors, ministers, governors, or police officers—are always, simply from the possession of power, more liable to be demoralized, that is, to subordinate public interests to their personal aims than those who have not the power to do so. Jesus prayed in John 17 that we would be one with God, just as he and the Father are one. The kingdom of God, Jesus replied, is not something people will be able to see and point to. The kingdom of God, Jesus replied, is not something people will be able to see and point to. (2.8K votes), “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.” "The Kingdom of God is inside/within you (and all about you), not in buildings/mansions of wood and stone. This principle shows itself in men not trying to recognise the truth, but to persuade themselves that the life they are leading, which is what they like and are used to, is a life perfectly consistent with truth.” the BookQuoters community. Frankie: The kingdom of God is within you and all around you. Но это не могло длиться вечно.” And directly one state adopted it the others were obliged to do the same. For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you." interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We feel Founded in 2018, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people byhisfatherin1838,he,assumingthatitmightbeinterestingformetoknowthis,sentmethe “DeclarationofNon-resistance,”whichhisfatherhadmadeaboutfiftyyearsago. Born place: in Yasnaya Polyana, Tula, Russian Empire The above film clip is from The Great Dictator released in 1940. Ever since Christianity has beenoutwardly professed, this question is for men in their social lifelike the question which presents itself to a traveler when theroad on which he has been journeying divides into two branches.He must go on and he cannot say: I will not think about it, butwill go on just as I did before. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous The 1st edition of The Kingdom of God Is Within You, 1894. Jesus’ answer was that the kingdom of God … A kingdom that has its throne in the heart, on which Christ, the King, sits. If two, ten, a hundred men do so, they, too, are murderers. 5.0 out of 5 stars 3. You see, the kingdom of God is within you." Царство Божие внутри вас (Russian Edition) ― David Levithan, quote from Wide Awake, “Second, and far more important: tuck your chin. In men it takes the form of the psychological principle, so truly expressed in the words of the Gospel, " They have loved darkness better than light, because their deeds were evil." The words of Jesus you cite, “The kingdom of God is within you,” is from Luke 17:21 and was delivered to the Pharisees. Indeed, it could not be otherwise.”, “One man may not kill. To bring these people under the sway of Christianity there is one only means, that is, the Christian social ideal, which can only be realized among them by true Christian teaching and supported by a true example of the Christian life. Split a piece of wood and you will find me. F… Only gather the people together on a large scale, and a battle of ten thousand men becomes an innocent action. Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' ― Max Frei, quote from The Stranger, “When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what’s right and what’s wrong, and that’s got us through any number of things. In these letters, which express their sympathy with my views concerning the unlawfulness for Christianity of all violence and war, the Quakers informed me of the details of their so-called sect, which for more than two hundred years has in fact professed Christ’s teaching about non-resistance to evil, and which has used no arms in order to defend itself. “There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being … for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. If you can have that with someone, then you’re most of the way toward love. ” This principle shows itself in men not trying to recognise the truth, but to persuade themselves that the life they are leading, which is what they like and are used to, is a life perfectly consistent with truth.”, “In affirming my belief in Christ's teaching, I could not help explaining why I do not believe, and consider as mistaken, the Church's doctrine, which is usually called Christianity.”, “The history of mankind is crowded with evidences proving that physical coercion is not adapted to moral regeneration, and that the sinful dispositions of men can be subdued only by love; that evil can be exterminated only by good; that it is not safe to rely upon the strength of an arm to preserve us from harm; that there is great security in being gentle, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy; that it is only the meek who shall inherit the earth; for those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.”, “The rivalry of the European states in constantly increasing their forces has reduced them to the necessity of having recourse to universal military service, since by that means the greatest possible number of soldiers is obtained at the least possible expense. Luke 17:20-21Open menuKing James VersionOpen menu. One man cannot plunder and pillage, but a whole nation can. But a government or a nation may kill as many men as it chooses, and that will not be murder, but a great and noble action. ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. Jesus came to live among us and show us the love of God. Beautiful Church Quote By Luke~ The gospel of luke… It Is Easier For A Camel To Pass Through The Eye Of A Needle Than For A Rich Man To Enter The Kingdom Of Heaven. Germany first hit on this device. In men it takes the form of the psychological principle, so truly expressed in the words of the Gospel, " They have loved darkness better than light, because their deeds were evil." Responding to a question from the Pharisees about when the Kingdom of God would come, Jesus said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, See here! And therefore, however we may conceal it from ourselves, we cannot help seeing that the significance of our life cannot lie in our personal fleshly existence, the prey of incurable suffering and inevitable death, nor in any social institution or organization. ― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You, “It is often said that the invention of terrible weapons of destruction will put an end to war. But precisely how many are needed to make it permissible?”, “A man cannot get rid of the responsibility, for his own actions.”, “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.”, “The more men are freed from privation; the more telegraphs, telephones, books, papers, and journals there are; the more means there will be of diffusing inconsistent lies and hypocrisies, and the more disunited and consequently miserable will men become, which indeed is what we see actually taking place.”, “A church is a body of men who assert that they are in possession of infallible truth. Luke 10:9 Luke Chapter 17:21 21Neither shall they say, Lo here! 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