Heaven Quotes - Page 40

• In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity

  Robert Browning

  Vanity, Earth, Fool

  Robert Browning, David Ewbank (2007). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations”, p.82, Ohio University Press

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• But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Definitions, States

  William Barclay (1964). “The Gospel of John”

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• The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Song, Book, Home

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• When heaven breaks, who fixes it?

  Jodi Picoult

  Break

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.

  John Donne

  Hair, Soul, Arms

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Funeral'

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• Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision

  Thomas Jefferson

  Decision, Oracles, Reason

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• Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taken, Silence

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• The voice of God is heard from heaven, declaring the day and hour of Jesus' coming, and delivering the everlasting covenant to His people. Like peals of loudest thunder His words roll through the earth. The Israel of God stand listening, with their eyes fixed upward. Their countenances are lighted up with His glory, and shine as did the face of Moses when he came down from Sinai. The wicked cannot look upon them. And when the blessing is pronounced on those who have honored God by keeping His Sabbath holy, there is a mighty shout of victory.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Eye, Blessing

  Ellen G. White “The Great Controversy—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• A Christian is not simply a person who is forgiven and goes to heaven. A Christian, in terms of his or her deepest identity, is a saint, a spiritually born child of God, a divine masterpiece, a child of light, a citizen of heaven.

  Neil T Anderson

  Christian, Children, Light

  Neil T. Anderson (2010). “Victory Over the Darkness (Large Print 16pt)”, p.34, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

  Baltasar Gracian

  Gratitude, Grateful, Focus

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• Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle.

  Charles Studd

  Jesus, Long, Religion

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• Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

  Jon Lovitz

  Smile, Running, Years

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• Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Cities, London, Hell

  'Peter Bell the Third' (1819) pt. 3, st. 1

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• Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.

  A. B. Simpson

  Opportunity, Practice, Trying

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• Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Religion, Earth

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• You've got a lot to look forward to in Heaven. Compared to what's in store for you in Heaven, your current pain and problems are petty.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Pain, Religion

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• The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Glasses, Soul, Hell

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.448, Manonmani Publishers

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• Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.

  Amelia Barr

  Song, Gratitude, Light

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• You are heaven's Halley's comet; we have one shot at seeing you shine.

  Max Lucado

  Shining, Comets, Shots

  Max Lucado (2011). “Cure for the Common Life”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• May the power of your love, Lord Christ, fiery and sweet as honey, so absorb our hearts as to withdraw them from all that is under heaven. Grant that we may be ready to die for love of your love, as you died for love of our love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, Sweet, Heart

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• As the flower turns to the sun, that the bright beams may aid in perfecting its beauty and symmetry, so should we turn to the Sun of Righteousness, that Heaven's light may shine upon us, that our character may be developed in to the likeness of Christ.

  Ellen G. White

  Flower, Character, Light

  Ellen G. White “Steps to Christ—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

  Joseph Addison

  Plato, Fall, Men

  'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Doctrine, Ends

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.19, editionNEXT.com

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• There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.

  Robert Browning

  Evil, Broken, Perfect

  'Abt Vogler' (1864) st. 9

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• The child is not mine as the first was,
  I cannot sing it to rest,
  I cannot lift it up fatherly
  And bliss it upon my breast;
  Yet it lies in my little one's cradle
  And sits in my little one's chair,
  And the light of the heaven she's gone to
  Transfigures its golden hair.

  James Russell Lowell

  Children, Lying, Light

  "The Changeling". Poem by James Russell Lowell, 1879.

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