Heaven Quotes - Page 28

• Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears.  It's up to each individual which one he chooses.

  Tom Robbins

  Hell, Individual

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.143, Bantam

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• Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

  Vernor Vinge

  Knowing, Pieces, Littles

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.93, Macmillan

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• A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Flower, Grace, Good Woman

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1851). “The History of Pendennis, His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy”, p.153

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• The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

  Tad Williams

  War, Men, Wire

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.100, Penguin

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• Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! [...] I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.

  John Chivington

  Sympathy, God, Believe

  "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (War Comes to the Cheyenne)". Book by Dee Brown (pp. 86-87), 1970.

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• Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Luck, Gone, Sun

  1931 Afterthoughts, 'Myself'.

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• Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

  Tycho Brahe

  Imagination, Spheres, Appearance

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• A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Pride, Thinking, Order

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• Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.

  Franz Rosenzweig

  Sweet, Lying, Book

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• Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Thrones, Stories, Chariots

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• To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Endeavor, Roman Emperor, Citadels

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• For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Reality, Littles

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.147, Harper Collins

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• It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus taught us to pray: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' At the same time, it often appears that those who talk the most about relieving suffering now talk the least about heaven when we die.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Taught Us, Suffering

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• When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppression, loneliness, despair, death, slaughter--they are all hell on earth. Jesus' desire for his followers is that they live in such a way that they bring heaven to earth. What's disturbing is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about Hell here and now. As a Christian, I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Jesus, Loneliness

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• Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. It's not God in his heaven who sees everything. A kitchen chair, a clothes hanger, a half-filled ashtray, or the wooden replica of a woman named Niobe can serve perfectly well as an unforgetting witness to our every deed.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Clothes, Kitchen

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• They're crying. It was Drogba, it was the angels, it was the heavens, it was the stars, it was the gods, it was everything for Chelsea. This is not anything to do with football. This is more than football, this is spirit. Never giving in, fighting to the end, that English spirit running right the way through this Champions League for Chelsea.

  Gary Neville

  Running, Football, Stars

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• On the shining yards of heaven
  See a wider dawn unfurled. . . .
  The eternal slaves of beauty
  Are the masters of the world.

  Bliss Carman

  Shining, Dawn, Yards

  Bliss Carman, Richard Hovey (1905). “Songs from Vagabondia”

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• Hell would be to have to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there.

  Ed Martin

  Would Be, Hell, Eternity

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• Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

  Mao Zedong

  Chaos, Excellent, Situation

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• Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Pain, Lying, Loss

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• There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.

  Colleen McCullough

  Smile, God, Song

  "Fictional character: Ralph de Bricassart". "There are no ambitions noble", www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

  Colleen McCullough

  Imagination, Bird, Use

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• Breath of Heaven breathe on us.

  Kari Jobe

  Breathe, Breaths

  Song: Breathe On Us, Album: Majestic, 2014

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• Flowers... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Flower, Clouds

  "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Book by Thomas de Quincey, 1821.

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• Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Inspirational, Christian, Mother

  Twitter post from May 10, 2015

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