Celestial Quotes - Page 4

• 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 always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Cities, People

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.109, Barbour Publishing

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• If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

  Laozi

  Teaching, Pathways, Virtue

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• For no falsehood can endure
  Touch of celestial temper.

  John Milton

  Lying, Endure, Temper

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.296

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• There buds the promise of celestial worth.

  Edward Young

  Promise, Bud

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1803). “Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life”, p.410

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• Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heaven, Deeds, Glory

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• Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Music, Light, Heaven

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• Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

  John Burroughs

  Water, Earth, Holy

  John Burroughs (1921). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Cities, Saint

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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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• There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
  The earth, and every common sight,
  To me did seem
  Apparelled in celestial light,
  The glory and the freshness of a dream.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Light, Sight

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 1 (1807)

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• Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.

  Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

  Rose, Honor, Pathways

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• But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Assuming, Assumption

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.134

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• Turning God into some kind of celestial insurance policy is just mental.

  Justin Welby

  Kind, Policy, Insurance Policy

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• Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Order, Regulation, Regions

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• I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Flower, Heart

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• Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

  Cornel West

  Passion, Dark, Roots

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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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• 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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• What intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling in the azure sky, even through the weakest of telescopes, and not be struck by it in an intensely pleasurable way, not feel cut off from everyday life here on Earth and transported toward that first step on celestial journeys?

  Camille Flammarion

  Beautiful, Cutting, Intelligent

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• I will go forward... I will smile at the rage of the tempest, and ride fearlessly and triumphantly across the boisterous ocean of circumstance... And the 'testimony of Jesus' will light up a lamp that will guide my vision through the portals of immortality, and communicate to my understanding the glories of the Celestial kingdom.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Spiritual, Jesus, Ocean

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• You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path thats clear. I will choose Freewill.

  Neil Peart

  Fear, Kindness, Voice

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• Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.

  James G. Frazer

  Dream, Strong, Powerful

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• I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love, Integrity, Women

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Disappointment, Grief, Sight

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.34, DOSER Reads

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