John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Pride, Men, Oneness

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1869). “Among the Hills, and Other Poems”, p.73

• So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,-- The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Strength, Strong, Fighting

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.57

• Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Weed, Work, Sunshine

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.77

• Life's sunniest hours are not without
  The shadow of some lingering doubt--
  Amid its brightest joys will steal
  Spectres of evil yet to feel--
  Its warmest love is blent with fears,
  Its confidence a trembling one--
  Its smile--the harbinger of tears--
  Its hope--the change of April's sun!
  A weary lot--in mercy given,
  To fit the chastened soul for heaven.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love Is, Evil, Joy

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