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• Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

  Thomas Traherne

  Morning, Father, Angel

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Opportunity, Church, Use

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• One simply cannot come to a cause like the kingdom of God, with its celestial concepts, and not appreciate and identify with what Ammon said: "Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel."

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Causes

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• Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

  Annie Besant

  Strong, Passion, Class

  Annie Wood Besant (1910). “The Changing World: And Lectures to Theosophical Students; Fifteen Lectures Delivered in London During May, June, and July 1909”

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• A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Men, Rude, Devil

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• Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

  Michael Shermer

  Prayer, Religion, Labs

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• It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

  Billy West

  Business, Onions, Levels

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2005.

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• The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

  Francois Rabelais

  Wine, Oil, Laughing

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• One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')

  Anne Tyler

  People, World, Navigation

  Anne Tyler (2012). “Celestial Navigation”, p.141, Random House

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• Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which they suggest and aspire to bear, browsed on by fate; and only the most persistent and strongest genius defends itself and prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Children, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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• There is not a hint of one person who was afraid to draw near him [Jesus]. There were those who mocked him. There were those who were envious of him. There were those who misunderstood him. There were those who revered him. But there was not one person who considered him too holy, too divine, or too celestial to touch. There was not one person who was reluctant to approach him for fear of being rejected.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Misunderstood, Hints

  Max Lucado (2006). “Everyday Blessings: 365 Days of Inspirational Thoughts”, Thomas Nelson

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• The most important things that any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever does in this world are: 1. To marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority; and 2. To keep the covenant made in connection with the holy and perfect order of matrimony-thus assuring the obedient persons of an inheritance of exaltation in the celestial kingdom.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Jesus, Order, Perfect

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• For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
  An age of discord and continual strife?
  Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
  And is a pattern of celestial peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Patterns, Bliss

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.247, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people, but to personally welcome and embrace those who have made it back home.

  Tad R. Callister

  Jesus, Home, People

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• We came to this earth that we might have a body and present it pure before God in the celestial kingdom. The great principle of happiness consists in having a body. The devil has no body, and herein is his punishment. He is pleased when he can obtain the tabernacle of man. . . . All beings who have bodies have power over those who have not.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Devil, Might

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• Prepare yourselves for two weeks from tomorrow; and I will tell you now, that if you will tarry with your husbands, after I have set you free, you must bow down to it, and submit yourselves to the celestial law. You may go where you please, after two weeks from tomorrow; but, remember, that I will not hear any more of this whining.

  Brigham Young

  Husband, Law, Two

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• Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.

  Walter Scott

  Spring, Sensibility

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• Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand.

  Pablo Neruda

  Blue, Water, Silence

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• A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Karma, Children, Astrology

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• The purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens, and that requires change.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Citizens, Purpose, Common

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• All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

  Bertrand Russell

  Heaven, Logic, Study

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• When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Military, Real, Home

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• I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

  Marston Morse

  Moon, Mechanic, Not Interested

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• I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork ... insofar as nearly all the manifold movements are carried out by means of a single, quite simple magnetic force. This physical conception is to be presented through calculation and geometry.

  Johannes Kepler

  Mean, Science, Simple

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• There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Angel, Lord

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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