Jesus said, "The Kingdom of God Is Within You"

Saw this on a coffee mug in Cambria, California yesterday.

"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the queen. "When I was your age I did it for a half an hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Carroll

Repentance is the way into the Kingdom of God. Most people repent enough to get to heaven, but not enough to see the Kingdom. You know when you've repented enough, because then the impossible begins to look logical.

Dredging History with a Magnet

I've been re-reading Dallas Willard's The Divine Conspiracy, and ran across of wonderful quote by Jaroslav Pelikan. The quote is from Jesus Through The Centuries:

"Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of Western culture for almost twenty centuries. If it were possible, with some sort of super magnet, to pull up out of that history every scrpt of metal bearing at least a trace of his name, how much would be left?" (Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries, p.1 or Divine Conspiracy, p.12)

It sounds an echo from John's gospel: 25And there are also many other things which Jesus did. If they should be all recorded one by one [in detail], I suppose that even the world itself could not contain (have room for) the books that would be written. (John 21:25, Amplified)