Heaven Quotes
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To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.
William Jones
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If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.
H. G. Wells
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Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.
Galileo Galilei
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Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe there are few events in my life which have not happened to many; it is true the incidents of it are numerous, and, did I consider myself an European, I might say my sufferings were great; but when I compare my lot with that of most of my countrymen, I regard myself as a particular favorite of heaven, and acknowledge the mercies of Providence in every occurrence of my life.
Olaudah Equiano
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But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky
Robert Hunter
Grateful Dead
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THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more.
Emily Dickinson
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Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.
Michelangelo
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Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.
Aldo Leopold
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No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.
David Jeremiah
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In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
Pir Vilayat Khan
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Heaven or Hell? You make it seem as if that's an easy choice to make. Sitting there in heaven watching others burn, and I can't do anything to help? That in itself would be hell for me. I'd be up there fighting god and his angels to let me out, so that I can come down and at least try to help. I am a moral person. Heaven is for uncaring Hypocrites.
Deborah Pryce
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Love, whose month is ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair,
Playing in the wanton air:
Through the velvet leaves the wind,
All unseen can passage find;
That the lover, sick to death,
Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.
William Shakespeare
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Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.
Lord Byron
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Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.
Saint Augustine
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Everyone hungers for a foretaste of heaven. The word "heaven" strikes a note in everyone's heart, for all men are Adam's children, driven out of paradise, but still cherishing a deep desire for the lost paradise.
Basilea Schlink
