Heaven Quotes - Page 9

• Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  People, Preparation, Far Away

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (1947). “Systematic Theology”

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• On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose, Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend . . . He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

  George Meredith

  Stars, Tired, Dark

  'Lucifer in Starlight'

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• Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

  Joseph Addison

  Religious, Rewards, Natural

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: with a biographical and critical preface, and explanatory notes”, p.373

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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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• 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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• Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Invention

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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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• I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Change, Mother, Daughter

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

  Emily Bronte

  Shining, Glory, Equal

  "Last Lines" l. 1 (1846)

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• I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Heart, Painting, My Heart

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• They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

  Clint Eastwood

  Funny, Sarcastic, Confusing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

  James Joyce

  Suffering, Kingdoms, Violence

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.473, Courier Dover Publications

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• We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eden, Devil

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• The One remains, the many change and pass;
  Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
  Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
  Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
  Until Death tramples it to fragments.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Change, Science

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 52

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• It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

  John Milton

  Children, Lying, Winter

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 1

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Suicide, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

  Dante Alighieri

  Eye, Wheels, Glory

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• I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Faith, Kindness, Angel

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• While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.

  Timothy Keller

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.29, Penguin

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• On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

  Jules Renard

  Nature, Pieces, Earth

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• If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Death, Spiritual

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

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• Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Lying, Dying

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [235]

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• Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

  John Adams

  Fall, Bad Ass, Justice

  John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor (1983). “Papers of John Adams”

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• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Relationship, Marriage, Cynical

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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