Celestial Quotes

• Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

  George Washington

  Integrity, 4th Of July, Fire

  Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour. Sparks 'Life of Washington' (1839) vol. 2, p. 109

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• Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

  Michelangelo

  Education, Artist, Perception Of Beauty

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• Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Desire, Divine

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• Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Soul And Body

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• Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Calm

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1868). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including His Tour to the Hebrides, Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, &c. With Numerous Additions”, p.226

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• With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Adversity, Sight, Trials

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• The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

  El Greco

  Art, Spirit, Language

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• Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.

  Rumi

  Sky, Feet

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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• Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.

  Marion G. Romney

  Life, God, Faith

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• Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Happiness, Exotic, Birth

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• The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Astrology, Causes, World

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• Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thinking, Divinity, Divine

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to change. “Repent” is its most frequent message, and repenting means giving up all of our practices-perso nal, family, ethnic, and national-that are contrary to the commandments of God. The purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens, and that requires change.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Giving Up, Mean

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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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• 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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• Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

  Nicolas Gomez Davila

  Hierarchy, Hell, Equal

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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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• You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God, and (said he) God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings, and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial Kingdom of God.

  John Taylor

  Heart, Men, Inheritance

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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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• Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Determination, Fatherhood, Desire

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Just as order gave life and beauty to the earth when it was dark and void, so it does to us. Obedience helps us develop the full potential Heavenly Father desires for us in becoming celestial beings worthy some day to live in His presence.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Father, Dark

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• We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who find nobility and divinity in motherhood, so be it. For mother is the word that will define a righteous woman made perfect in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom, a woman who has qualified for eternal increase in posterity, wisdom, joy, and influence.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mother, Perfect, Joy

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• Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon. In truth, it is a lifelong migration toward a more celestial world.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Journey, Track, World

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• I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time; Field of the soul 's best wisdom : home of truth , Star-throned.

  Philip James Bailey

  Wisdom, Stars, Home

  Philip James Bailey, “Fetus - XI”

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