Jean Ingelow Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
-
Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
-
I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
-
The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
-
There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
-
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
-
If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.
-
The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
-
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
-
I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
-
In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
-
Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
-
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
-
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
-
I can tell you, if you shoot in the rain you're going to have a lot of voice ADR to do after the movie and voice looping, stuff like that.
-
People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
-
Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.
-
Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
-
The rapture will not be secret but open and manifest. Its purpose will not be to whisk the elect away from the earth for a while until Christ returns for a 'second' Second Coming. The purpose of the rapture is to allow the saints to meet Jesus in the air as He returns and be included in His entourage during His triumphal descent from Heaven. His coming in this manner will be attended by the general resurrection, the final judgment, and the end of the world.
-
Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
-
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
-
Motivation varies in strength.
-
There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.
