But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the L hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the L hath commanded him to be captain over his people.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORD1 Samuel13:14.

And this is the writing that was written,. This is the interpretation of the thing:; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it,; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.;Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

-Bible (Old Testament)
MENE, MENE,TEKEL, UPHARSIN MENE TEKEL PERESDaniel 5:25^8.

But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 8:12.

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.Thy will be doneinearth, as it isinheaven.Giveus this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive ourdebtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 6:9^13

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours or wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdomagainst kingdom: and thereshall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 24:6^7.

   And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Mark 3:24^5.

Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke17:21.

And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee,To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke 23:42^3.

   A miracle is not the breaking of the laws of the fallen world.It is the re-establishment of the laws of the kingdom.

-Sourozh
  Living Prayer.

   The dominion of the sea, as it is an ancient and undoubted right of the crown of England, so it isthe best security of the land† The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom.

-Coventry,Thomas, 1st Baron
  Speech to the Star Chamber,17  Jun.'Wooden walls'refers to ships.

License my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below. O my America! my new-found-land, My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned.

-Donne,John
c.1595  Elegies, no.19,'To His Mistress Going to Bed'.

My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find That it excels all other bliss That world affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most men have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.

-Dyer, Sir Edward
  'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.

-Flaubert, Gustave
  The Temptation of St  Antony.

Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

-Heywood,Thomas
c.1607  A Woman Killed  with Kindness, sc.7.

I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland togovern the people of this kingdom well and justly, than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world.

-Lorenz, Konrad
   To his son, Louis, at Fontainebleau.

I often sigh still for the dark downward and vegetating kingdom of the fish and reptile.

-Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr
  'For the Union Dead'.

'My father is deceased.Come,Gaveston, And share the kingdom with thy dearest friend.' Ah, words that make me surfeit with delight! What greater bliss can hap to Gaveston Than live and be the favourite of a king? Sweet prince, I come; these, these thyamorous lines Might have enforced me to have swum from France, And, like Leander, gasped upon the sand, So thou would'st smile, and take me in thy arms.

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1591  Gaveston is reading a letter from King Edward. Edward II (published1594), act1, sc.1.

And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.

-Masefield,John Edward
  'The Everlasting Mercy'.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child isgrown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

-Millay, Edna St Vincent
  Wine From These Grapes,'Childhood is the Kingdom where Nobody dies'.

Il n'y a jamais eu de royaume o  u' il y ait eu tant de guerres civiles que dans celui du Christ. No kingdom has ever been so divided by civil wars as that of Christ.

-Bre'  de et de
Lettres persanes, no.29.