What Is Heaven Quotes
The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.
As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.
They who know most of God on earth or heaven know that they know little after all; but they know that they may know more and more of Him throughout eternal ages.
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is as if time remains embraced by divine eternity.
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven's children, Satan's temptations lose power in your life.
The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.
I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.
There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.
When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.
People reside within qi and qi resides within people. From heaven and earth down to the ten thousand things, each one requires qi to live.
When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.
Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.
There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.
The very fact of a Christian being here, and not in Heaven, is a proof that some work awaits him.
