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- proper noun Christianity A concept of heaven as a
hierarchical dominion withGod at the top and acourt ofsaints ,archangels andangels . - proper noun The place where God rules and reigns.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“A splendid Ideal had he, which he called the Kingdom of Heaven; the reproduction of himself among men he spoke of as his coming again; the reappearance of Virtue and Peace, Truth and Righteousness, he described as the clouds of Heaven and Angels of God.
Margaret 1851
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a psychological or mystical concept that has been misconstrued as a physical place.
Ian Gurvitz: 10 Wrong Questions and False Arguments That Frame Our Thinking About Religion 2010
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a psychological or mystical concept that has been misconstrued as a physical place.
Ian Gurvitz: 10 Wrong Questions and False Arguments That Frame Our Thinking About Religion 2010
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a spot of everlasting peace.
On the Firing Line Hamilton Brock Fuller 1905
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It is the dream of a just society which seems to haunt the human imagination ineradicably and in all ages, whether it is called the Kingdom of Heaven or the classless society, or whether it is thought of as a Golden Age which once existed in the past and from which we have degenerated.
Collected Essays 1900
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The Kingdom of Heaven is the divinely ordained system of government and dominion in all matters, temporal and spiritual; this will be established on earth only when its rightful Head, the King of kings, Jesus the Christ, comes to reign.
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897
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_Sanctuary_, or what is called the Kingdom of Heaven, is within us, that we are not an external but an internal creation of the
Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893
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Nobody has ever come back from the dead to report that the Kingdom of Heaven is a lot of hooey.
Stayin' Alive 2009
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But it isn't - the Kingdom of Heaven is a priceless treasure and unless we look after it, we can lose it.
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Men who are enlightened by the light of faith, -- must they not be convinced of these Christian truths: that the most perfect have some sins to expiate; that the saints can only attain to heaven by suffering; that the Kingdom of Heaven, which is invaluable, cannot be purchased at too great a price; and that God never manifests His paternal regard in our favor more evidently than when He afflicts us in this world in order to show us His mercy in the next?
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe
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