In the Buddhist faith, the Four Heavenly Kings are four gods, each of whom watches over one cardinal direction of the world.
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Famous quotes containing the words heavenly and/or kings:
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 6:25.26.
Jesus.
“Surely he is a god; either he is meditating, or he has wandered away, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 18:27.
Elijah mocking worshipers of Ba’al.