Quotes
Quotes about Heaven
Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.
He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies.
By robbing Peter he paid Paul, ... and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.
Why may not a goose say thus: "All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me; I have such an advantage by the winds and such by the waters; there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me. I am the darling of Nature! Is it not man that keeps and serves me?"
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Heaven's help is better than early rising.
Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom,
Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,
Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,
And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?
Only one thing is necessary: to possess God--All the senses, all the forces of the soul and of the spirit, all the exterior resources are so many open outlets to the Divinity; so many ways of tasting and of adoring God. We should be able to detach ourselves from all that is perishable and cling absolutely to the eternal and the absolute and enjoy the all else as a loan, as a usufruct.... To worship, to comprehend, to receive, to feel, to give, to act: this our law, our duty, our happiness, our heaven.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
I'm summoned by the fields and hills, The shady maples in the garden, The bank of the deserted burn, The liberties the country offers. Give me your hand. I will return At the beginning of October: We'll drink together once again, And o'er our cups of friendly candor Discuss a dozen gentlemen-- We'll talk of fools and wicked gentry, And those with flunkey's souls from birth, And sometimes of the Tsar of Heaven, And sometimes of the one on earth.
I will not force apart the jaws of heaven for my precocious entering. Heaven may open in its own good time without my prompting.
I was kind, humble, industrious. I was a candidate for the heaven I had wantonly barred from myself
Heaven is limitless. It is not confined as our earth is confined. And yet, says the Lord, this house must be filled. Filled with countless human souls, and each one revelling in its divine uniqueness
That free will which enables us to sin is the most glorious gift of the Heavenly Father
Art is a division of heaven gratuitously given. Being quasi-divine, it is beyond human concerns... it is freely available to the morally evil as to the morally good
Art is a vision of heaven gratuitously given. Being quasi-divine, it is beyond human concerns... it is freely available to the morally evil as to the morally good
At fifteen my mind was set on learning. At thirty my character had been formed. At forty I had no more perplexities. At fifty I knew the Mandate of Heaven. At sixty I was at ease with whatever I heard. At seventy I could follow my heart's desire without transgressing moral principles.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain. No art can make it: it must spring Where elements are fostering. So in heaven's spot and hour Springs the little native flower, Downward root and upward eye, Shapen by the earth and sky.
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it
