Quotes about King
The classical Liberal, during the Revolutionary time, was a man who wanted less power for the king and more power for the people. He wanted people to have more say in the running of their lives and he wanted protection for the God-given rights of the people. He did not believe those rights were dispensations granted by the king to the people, he believed that he was born with them. Well, that today is the Conservative.
— Ronald Reagan
Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.
— Randy Alcorn
Yes," Marcus said. "The King is not gone, you know. He walks the planet, disguised as the needy.
— Randy Alcorn
Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.
— Randy Alcorn
Moses has the Ten Commandments, it's true, but I've got much better lines - King David
— Joseph Heller
Jeremiah is frequently misunderstood as a doomsday spokesman or a pitiful man who had a grudge and sat around crying; but his public and personal grief was for another reason and served another purpose. Jeremiah embodies the alternative consciousness of Moses in the face of the denying king.9 He grieves the grief of Judah because he knows what the king refuses to know.
— Walter Brueggemann
The withdrawal of the king from the narrative exposes the king as an irrelevance. The one with all the power can do nothing to save. Because it is only "my God who saves.
— Walter Brueggemann
The power of King Jesus is intrinsically revolutionary and subversive against every repressive regime.
— Walter Brueggemann
I have suggested creation is a work guaranteed by the king. The king is the one charged to order and preserve creation, and thus the return to chaos implicitly announces the failure of kingship and its end.
— Walter Brueggemann
In Psalm 68 we are reminded that Yahweh is not an aloof, austere King who stands afar and is unconcerned for the needs of His people. Rather, He daily bears our burdens, providing us a way of escape from enemies and troubles.
— Darlene Zschech
For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity.
— James H. Cone
The little slogan, "Let go, and let God," is not what the New Testament teaches—at least that is only part of the truth, for the act of total submission to the sovereignty of Jesus Christ is but the beginning of a new régime in your heart. No longer is the puppet king Self upon the throne, but the great King of kings and Lord of lords has stepped in to take over the government of your life.
— Alan Redpath