"Kingdom greatness means being content with poverty, servanthood,
and cross-bearing, as our lives are increasingly conformed to the cruciform pattern of Christ's life.
Kingdom greatness means growing in meekness, not in self-assertiveness.
It means learning how to mourn and to move toward those in pain,
rather than how to evade suffering for ourselves and in the lives of others.
It means loving and pursuing peace, which often feels far more costly than seeking to get our own way.
Kingdom greatness will sometimes mean being persecuted, abandoned, and betrayed by those around us, yet finding that God is still our refuge."
[Iain M. Duguid and Matthew P. Harmon, "Living in the Light of Inextinguishable Hope"]