Quotes About Kingdom

When it comes to Æthelbald's other priority – 'the defence of fortresses against enemies

The Danish conqueror had breathed his last on 3 February 1014,

creating a new kingdom called Dal Riata – a maritime empire

with what is now Wales.

In 757, having ruled for forty-one years, he was killed by his own bodyguard

the story of Offa's rise to power is frustratingly obscure.

the medium-sized kingdom was squeezed and carved up by its bigger, more powerful neighbours,

Offa had demoted them to the rank of provincial governors.

Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, and there Æthelfrith was slain.

Wessex alone had survived, and Alfred had done his best to repair the damage it had suffered.

Æthelwulf decided to marry Charles' daughter, Judith

In 686 Cædwalla invaded the Isle of Wight,

Alfred had returned with one purpose – to confront and destroy the Danes who were occupying his kingdom

It stood on the northern frontier of his kingdom, twenty miles inland from the fortress at Bamburgh,

Bede consoled his readers that the two boys had gone gladly to their deaths, 'assured of their entry into the eternal kingdom'.

But none of these was as large or as lucrative as London. Æthelbald was not wholly reliant on its profits.

says the annal for 924, 'King Edward died, and his son Æthelstan succeeded to the kingdom.

they probably became worse after the death of Theodore, who died in September 690 at the advanced age of eighty-eight.

Aldfrith grew tired of the constant arguments and banished the troublesome bishop from his kingdom for a second time.68

Oswiu had made him the ruler of the southern part of Northumbria, the former kingdom of Deira.

Be it so, therefore, that these gifts we intend are not in themselves saving graces, yet are they not to be despised; for they are, as we shall show, the "powers of the world to come," by means whereof the kingdom of Christ is preserved, carried on, and propagated in the world.

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

Why do we so dread to think of our species as a species? Can it be that we are afraid of what we may find? That human self-love would suffer too much and that the image of God might prove to be a mask? This could be only partly true, for if we could cease to wear the image of a kindly, bearded, interstellar dictator, we might find ourselves true images of his kingdom, our eves the nebulae, and universes in our cells.

Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom