Dante Alighieri Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Eye, Heaven, Wheels

• "The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.

  Dante Alighieri

  Spiritual, Mirrors, Light

• If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven

  Dante Alighieri

  Heaven, Natural, Bent

• The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

  Dante Alighieri

  Eye, Heaven, Earth

• They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace.

  Dante Alighieri

  Peace, Father, Humility

• He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.

  Dante Alighieri

  Love, Land, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “Paradiso”, p.182, Bantam Classics

• The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

  Dante Alighieri

  Eye, Circles, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (1991). “Purgatorio”, p.153, Princeton University Press

• To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.

  Dante Alighieri

  Beautiful, Stars, Tunnels

• Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.

  Dante Alighieri

  Fire, Ice, Heaven

  "The Divine Comedy".

• To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sea, Water, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings”, p.2, Univ of California Press

• This miserable way
  is taken by the sorry souls of those
  who lived without disgrace and without praise.
  They now commingle with the coward angels,
  the company of those who were not rebels
  nor faithful to their God, but stood apart.
  The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened,
  have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them -
  even the wicked cannot glory in them.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sorry, Taken, Angel

  Dante Alighieri, “Inferno Canto 03”

• If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars, Destiny, Heaven

  Divina Commedia "Inferno" canto 15, l. 55 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

• So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

  Dante Alighieri

  Rivers, Heaven, Grace

  "Purgatorio (Divine Comedy, Book 2)". Book by Dante Alighieri (Canto XIII), 1321.

• O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

  Dante Alighieri

  Blow, Light, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (2000). “Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation”, p.163, Indiana University Press

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