Heaven And Earth Quotes - Page 3

• When you show a man what he wants he will move heaven and earth to get it.

  Frank Bettger

  Moving, Men, Heaven

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will either laugh or commiserate politely. But tell them you are facing gastronomic hardship, and they will move heaven and earth and even restaurant tables to help you.

  Peter Mayle

  Moving, Laughing, Heaven

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Nov 25, 2015

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• The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Heaven, Sound, Earth

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• But why should we not place implicit confidence in God and rely upon His word of promise? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Has His word of promise ever failed? Then let us not entertain any unbelieving suspicions of His future care of us. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not so His promises.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Rely Upon, Heaven, Promise

  Arthur W. Pink (2016). “The Life of Elijah”, p.54, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Heaven, Literature, Earth

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.84, tredition

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• Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

  Laozi

  Dog, Heaven, Sage

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• Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead. He is detached, thus at one with all. Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Taoism, Selfless

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• ... Remember in the beginning God created heaven and earth and all that was created was good so that anything that isn't good has come about because of your belief of mind that you are separate from this divinity. You are not what you have. You are not what you do. You are not what others think of you. You are beloved. You are divine. You are a creation that is made into perfection.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Perfection, Heaven

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• You are more valuable than both heaven and earth.
  What else can I say?
  You don’t know your own worth.

  Rumi

  Heaven, Earth, Valuable

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• The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Long, Heaven

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Heaven, Earth

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• When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

  Paracelsus

  Men, Heaven, Desire

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.45, Princeton University Press

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• Candor toward a brother must not be mistaken for confession. The latter is made to the Lord of heaven and earth in the presence of a man is authorized to hear it.

  Brother Roger

  Brother, Men, Heaven

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• What stands between heaven and earth is merely the acceptance of ourselves as apart of this world and our placement of ourselves.

  Timothy Treadwell

  Acceptance, Heaven, World

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• Consciousness is the inner spark or inner link in us, the golden link within us that connects our highest and most illumined part with our lowest and most unillumined part. Consciousness is the connecting link between Heaven and earth.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heaven, Links, Earth

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.28, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophy, Doctors, Heaven

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.33, Modern Library

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• Someone once quoted Shakespeare to the philosopher W. V. O. Quine: There
  are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
  To which Quine is said to have responded: Possibly, but my concern is that
  there not be more things in my philosophy than are in heaven and earth.

  Chet Raymo

  Philosophy, Heaven, Earth

  Chet Raymo (2008). “When God is Gone Everything is Holy: The Making of a Religious Naturalist”, Ave Maria Press

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• As Hamlet tells his friend, ``There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'' Well then, we must try harder to dream!

  Gregory Chaitin

  Dream, Philosophy, Heaven

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• Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.

  Confucius

  Strong, Light, Opposites

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• I'm careful with my heart. I don't take crap from no one these days. I put my foot down. Being a woman, you deserve heaven and earth.

  Kelly Rowland

  Heart, Feet, Heaven

  "'You can’t keep me away from a good sex shop': Kelly Rowland reveals her naughty side". www.dailymail.co.uk. November 28, 2011.

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• All bowmen are caught between heaven and earth, born to discovery, choosing to love and raise their eyes high to a future that is apparent only through the strength of their hope.

  David Paul

  Eye, Discovery, Heaven

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• God inspired in the heart of the pure Virgin Mary His own intense love for humility...It was this humility which attracted to her the countless graces which rendered her worthy to be the Mother of God, Queen of heaven and earth.

  John Eudes

  Mother, Queens, Humility

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• The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Eye, Giving, Water

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• Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.

  Bruce Lee

  Differences, Heaven, Earth

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (2000). “Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.207, Tuttle Publishing

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• Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around claiming that our "God made the heaven and the earth," it is not unreasonable to expect us to know something about what that heaven and earth actually are.

  Sara Maitland

  People, Heaven, Greek

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