Heaven Quotes
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Why make so much of fragmentary blue. In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
Robert Frost
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I was struck with that particular passage which says: 'Seek ye the kingdom of Heaven and all things shall be added unto you.'
Nat Turner
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I prize thy gentle heart, Free from ambition, falsehood, or art, And thy good mind, Daily refined, By pure desire To fan the heaven-seeking fire.
Margaret Fuller
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Turn all your thoughts and aspirations to heaven. Work hard to secure for yourself a place there for ever.
Jozef De Veuster
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Heaven-gates are not so highly archedAs princes' palaces; they that enter thereMust go upon their knees.
John Webster
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In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee.
Jakob Bohme
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And such too is the grandeur of the doomsWe have imagined for the mighty dead;All lovely tales that we have heard or read:An endless fountain of immortal drink,Pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink.
John Keats
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You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone's yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. The tree knew. It came there first. Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.
Betty Smith
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I cannot be content with less than heaven;Living, and comprehensive of all life.Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,Star-throned.
Philip James Bailey
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Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
Bill Hybels
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There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land].
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
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God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.
Corrie Ten Boom