Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
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.
Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.
What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?
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.
I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
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.
It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
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.
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.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
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.
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.
Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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