Heaven Quotes - Page 8

• Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Home, Beginners

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• Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Paradise On Earth, Creative, Orthodox Church

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• What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ignorant, Literature

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706).

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• The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

  H. G. Wells

  Teacher, Jesus, Retirement

  H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.154, Xist Publishing

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• One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Art, Peace

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• All this and heaven too.

  Matthew Henry

  Attitude

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• Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Men, Venice

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• Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Degrees, Conscious

  Ernest Holmes (2009). “What We Believe: The Essence of Science of Mind”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, God, Spiritual

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Religion, Objects

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• God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

  Billy Graham

  Happiness, Dog, Believe

  "Do All Dogs Go to Heaven? Pretty Sure This One Did" by Cathleen Falsani, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.

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• For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

  Robert Greene

  Stars, Soul, Deeds

  Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce (1861). “The dramatic and poetical works: With memoirs of the authors and notes”, p.282

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• O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

  Marianne Moore

  Power, Dragons, Size

  'O To Be a Dragon' (1959)

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• All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.

  Thomas Browne

  Math, Order, Cities

  'The Garden of Cyrus' (1658) ch. 5

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• I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

  Thomas Hood

  Ignorance, Dark, Boys

  1826 'I Remember'.

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• My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!

  John Milton

  Delight, Lasts, Found

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 18

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• Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Wealth, Know Me

  'Songs of Travel' (1896) 'The Vagabond'

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• Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
  Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
  Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
  And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
  Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
  To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

  John Milton

  Wrath, Suffering, Despair

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 73

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• Patch up thine old body for heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Body, Patch Up, Patches

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [249]

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• The bottom line is in heaven!

  Edwin Land

  Business, Lines, Finance

  Speech at shareholders' meeting of Polaroid Corporation, 26 Apr. 1977

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• If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Ambition, People, Goal

  Nadine Gordimer (1980). “Burger's Daughter”, Penguin Group USA

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• You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped.

  Edgar Cayce

  Arms, Heaven And Death, Ifs

  Edgar Cayce (1986). “The Edgar Cayce Collection: Four Volumes in One”, Random House Value Publishing

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• What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

  John Milton

  What If, Shadow, Earth

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 574

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• While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Past, World, Lasts

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.7

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• When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

  John Foxe

  Christian, Flower, Crowns

  John Foxe (1830). “The martyrs, or A history of persecution: from the commencement of Christianity to the present time including an account of the trials, tortures, and triumphant deaths of many who have suffered martyrdom”, p.21

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