Kingdom First Quotes

#1. The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.

Richard J. Foster

#2. I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you.

Shannon Hale

#3. We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second

Sunday Adelaja

#4. I need my own armor, and soon. A silly queen I'll look when I've been slowly flattened into a man."

Mace grinned. "You wouldn't be the first queen of this kingdom to be mistaken for a king.

Erika Johansen

#5. My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man ... not to democracy, or blood; it's to a King & a Kingdom

Derek Webb

#6. On the farm, in our first-floor bedroom, my sister and I were sheltered in the essence of normal. We were not hidden, but unseen. The orange farmhouse was our castle, our kingdom the fields around, and the shallow creek that bisected our property the sea we crossed to find adventure.

Lori Lansens

#7. When you seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, Matthew 6:33, there becomes no need to seek yet another kingdom.

Paul Halbeck

#8. Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.

Philip Yancey

#9. 33But n seek first o the kingdom of God and his righteousness, p and all these things will be added to you. 34 q Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Anonymous

#10. Shina is the Japanese appellation for China most commonly used during the first half of the twentieth century. After World War II the name for China reverted to chugoku (Middle Kingdom), a common name from before the Meiji Restoration (1868).4

Stefan Tanaka

#11. If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

Neal A. Maxwell

#12. The great majority of Christians of the first few centuries did not advocate - and probably did not imagine - that such moral equality could be implemented in society. Most assumed, no doubt, that they could realize such moral equality only in the coming Kingdom of God.

Elaine Pagels

#13. Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

Robert Burton

#14. The very first step to becoming a follower of Jesus Christ is the humble admission that we need him. Nothing keeps us out of the kingdom of God more surely than our pride and self-sufficiency.

John R.W. Stott

#15. If you are "seeking first" his kingdom where you are, then where you are is where he has positioned you.

Andy Stanley

#16. The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.

Eddie Mair

#17. But this first installation was by no means the last. Every year the Queen had some new fancy for beautifying her miniature kingdom with more highly artificial and more "natural" additions and alterations.

Stefan Zweig

#18. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

Swami Vivekananda

#19. Seek first the kingdom of heaven WITHIN, whereby lies an abundance of treasures and resources that you need

Lisa Washington

#20. But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

Kate Adie

#21. Nina glanced from Inej to Kaz and saw they both wore the same expression. Nina knew that look. It came after the shipwreck, when the tide moved against you and the sky had gone dark. It was the first sight of land, the hope of shelter and even salvation that might await you on a distant shore.

Leigh Bardugo

#22. If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.

Martin Luther

#23. Under the law of the kingdom, for example, no one may hope for forgiveness who has not first forgiven. Mt 6:12,14,15

Anonymous

#24. And this is the mission of the church
not civilization, but salvation
not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality and liberty, but first, the "kingdom of God and His righteousness;" regenerated hearts, and all other things will follow.

Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#25. The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our tissues were formed ages on ages ago; they have all persisted. Most of our organs are as old as worms. All these are very old, older than the mountains.

John M. Tyler

#26. You cannot honor God without honoring people first

Sunday Adelaja

#27. One thing I'd learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself.

Ridley Pearson

#28. Galadriel his sister went not with him to Nargothrond, for in Doriath dwelt Celeborn, kinsman of Thingol, and there was great love between them. Therefore she remained in the Hidden Kingdom, and abode with Melian, and of her learned great lore and wisdom concerning Middle-earth.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#29. Or future, experiencing the music with her, that unexpected prayer, and feeling grateful that I had set off in search of my kingdom. I lay down on the bed, and she continued to play. I fell asleep to the sound of her violin. I WOKE AT FIRST LIGHT, went to her room, and saw

Paulo Coelho

#30. Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.

Soren Kierkegaard

#31. The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#32. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Terri Blackstock

#33. Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Mother Teresa

#34. After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."

Bill Cosby

#35. God really meant it when He said, 'Seek FIRST the kingdom of God.'

Karen Wheaton

#36. If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all.

John Ruskin

#37. 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.

Anton Corbijn

#38. It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom."

John Ortberg

#39. First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.

Confucius

#40. Seek First God's Kingdom And His Righteousness

Sunday Adelaja

#41. Prayer is primarily for loving and worshiping God. If you would seek first His kingdom and just fellowship with Him, you'd find your needs already provided.

Andrew Wommack

#42. Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon's bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.
pg 9

Michael Ben Zehabe

#43. The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.

Albert Camus

#44. The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe or heavy-duty model of the Christian-especially padded, textured, streamlined, and empowered for the fast lane on the straight and narrow way. He stands on the pages of the New Testament as the first level of basic transportation in the kingdom of God.

Dallas Willard

#45. Often truly authoritative leadership falls on someone who years earlier dedicated themselves to practice the discipline of seeking first the kingdom of God. Then, as that person matures, God confers a leadership role, and the Spirit of God goes to work throuh him.

J. Oswald Sanders

#46. Nature's great mistake was to have been unable to confine herself to one "kingdom": juxtaposed with the vegetable, everything else seems inopportune, out of place. The sun should have sulked at the appearance of the first insect, and gone out altogether with the advent of the chimpanzee.

Emil M. Cioran

#47. Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.

Edward Eggleston

#48. If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

William Law

#49. We relegate God to our spare time - but end up never having any spare time! Jesus said, "Seek first his kingdom" [Matthew 6:33 NIV].

Billy Graham

#50. I found the kingdom of far far away, prince charming would not be so far.

Arzum Uzun

#51. If [we] have no chosen the kingdom of God [first], it will make in the end no difference what [we] have chosen instead.

William Law

#52. You must learn to overcome your cowardice, and put God, His principles and the things of His kingdom, that you are called to establish, first in your life

Sunday Adelaja

#53. The Bible views us as recipients of God's perfect love, already charged with an important life mission (seeking first the kingdom of God), and thus the decision to marry, though crucial, won't define us. Nor will who we marry define us.

Gary L. Thomas

#54. one. Children of God! it is thus Jesus would have us to pray to the Father in heaven. O let His Name, and Kingdom, and Will, have the first place in our love;

Andrew Murray

#55. Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probation to see if they will put first in their lives the kingdom of God.

Ezra Taft Benson

#56. Don't fall in love with the blessings. Fall in love with the Blessor. Seek first the Kingdom & God will reward you!

Joel Osteen

#57. The first step to that kingdom of God within is to find peace within even among chaos.

N.K.David

#58. You must first be a king of your own personal kingdom. If you can't lead that kingdom on your own two feet, you can't lead a bigger kingdom

Na'im Akbar

#59. Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God.

Rajneesh

#60. The first thing to do after you get fired is to discover God

Sunday Adelaja

#61. Being in Hollywood and having a love for Christ is hard. I mean, it's hard anywhere because Jesus is about the Upside Down Kingdom. You know, serve instead of being served, go last and don't try to be first.

Shane Harper

#62. The first step to a kingdom-focused cultural engagement is the recovery of a church that practices church discipline.

Russell D. Moore

#63. The word repentance is sadly missing today from the average pulpit. It is a very unpopular word. The first sermon Jesus ever preached was "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" [Matthew 4:17 kjv].

Billy Graham

#64. All the science of God is going to be exposed before you, completely. You are going to know the complete science of Divine Laws. They are very different from the ordinary laws we know. But first enter into the Kingdom of God. That's why I say first get your Self-Realization.

Nirmala Srivastava

#65. True satisfaction comes when the pursuit of purpose in the kingdom of God comes first

Sunday Adelaja

#66. We are told to seek first the kingdom of God, not seek first marriage.

Gary L. Thomas

#67. To seek first the kingdom of God is not to forfeit divine direction

Sunday Adelaja

#68. If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.

David B. Haight

#69. Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing.
Visions born of hope give birth to our success.
What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.

Terry Brooks

#70. First we are to seek peace in our local fellowship, to end strife and to seek reconciliation with God and with one another, and out of this peace-shaped, kingdom-shaped church we spill over peace into the world.

Scot McKnight

#71. Seek first the kingdom of God, and then trust that He will take care of our needs, even before we know what they are and where we're going.

Kevin DeYoung

#72. We have now the precious opportunity to find out for ourselves whether the words we have heard and read so often can be taken literally: 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things shall be added until you'.

Maria Von Trapp

#73. For it all, we gladly sacrifice. With it all, we proudly defend." Spoken first by a Sirunre citizen, a member of the Kingdom Alliance of the Empire Seas.

A.W.Chrystalis

#74. If we concern first with God's Kingdom, we can inhabit all other kingdoms.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#75. The first step is always one of surrender. Not my will but your will be done. I believe the fastest way to get God's attention and become fruitful in the Kingdom is to surrender yourself to him.

Steve Uppal

#76. Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge.

John D. Caputo

#77. My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.

Shirley Maclaine

#78. My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.

Basmah Bint Saud

#79. Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

Vladimir Lenin