Heavenly Quotes - Page 4

• Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine,
  Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine
  For me kind nature wakes her genial power,
  Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

  Alexander Pope

  Flower, Pride, Shining

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.5

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• For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

  Plutarch

  Men, Roots, Heaven

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• Sometimes in astronomy, a heavenly body has been virtually invisible until a single observer detects its presence and points it out to his colleagues, who then see it with increasing clarity. Perhaps a myriad of unknown senses are only awaiting our consciousness.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Body, Clarity, Sometimes

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• At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.

  John Shelby Spong

  Easter, Religion, Three

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Resurrection: Myth or Reality?”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

  Hosea Ballou

  Struggle, Ignorance, Blue

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• Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.

  Margaret Deland

  Age, Quality, Relief

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

  Theodore Parker

  Mother, Father, Lines

  Theodore Parker (1855). “Ten Sermons of Religion”, p.219

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• Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above
  Brightens thy presence like a smile of love,
  Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea,
  The roughest waves of human destiny
  Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd
  Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Cheer, Blessing, Destiny

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.461

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• I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Music, Selfish, Writing

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• Pow'r above pow'rs!
  O heavenly eloquence!
  That with the strong rein of commanding words,
  Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence
  Of men's affections, more than all their swords!

  Samuel Daniel

  Strong, Men, Affection

  Samuel Daniel, “Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning (Ex”

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• Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting growth for it; it is courage of soul, and bridges over for our crossing the gulf between worldliness and heavenly-mindedness; and it is the sense of the unseen, without which we could not feel God nor hope for heaven.

  William Mountford

  Faith, Integrity, Inspiration

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 220), 1895.

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• Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age--flowers before they have bloomed and trees ere they begin to bear.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Flower, Garden, Tree

  Thomas Guthrie (1874). “The Gospel in Ezekiel: A Series of Discourses”, p.269

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• [I have] a heavenly vase full of autumn leaves today. They look so beautiful. How much closer to God can one get? And a beautiful blue heron flew over the brook. Nature can make me cry faster than anything.

  Lotte Lenya

  Beautiful, Autumn, Blue

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• As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.

  Lorrie Moore

  Children, Eye, Possession

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• I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear beautiful; carnal sense is such a glass to wicked men, it makes heavenly things which are beautiful to appear deformed, and earthly things which are deformed to appear beautiful.

  Ralph Venning

  Beautiful, Men, Glasses

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• An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Political, Daydreaming, Mood

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• The Bible is a precious storehouse, and the Magna Charta of a Christian. There he reads of his Heavenly Father's love, and of his dying Saviour's legacies. There he sees a map of his travels through the wilderness, and a landscape, too, of Canaan.

  John Berridge

  Bible, Christian, Father

  JOHN BERRIDGE (1854). “THE CHRISTIAN WORLD UNMASKED”, p.38

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• Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Soil, Bliss, Felicity

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• In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Morning, Prayer, Children

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• The heart itself is only a small vessel,
  yet dragons are there, and lions,
  there are poisonous beasts,
  and all the treasures of evil,
  there are rough and uneven roads,
  there are precipes;
  but there too is God and the angels,
  life is there, and the Kingdom,
  there too is light, and there the apostles
  and heavenly cities,
  and treasures of grace.
  All things lie within that little space.

  Macarius of Egypt

  Lying, Heart, Angel

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• Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

  Maria Jane McIntosh

  Beautiful, Sunday, Earth

  Maria Jane McIntosh (1847). “Two Lives: Or, To Seem and to be”, p.199

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• We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might have seemed the most worthy of the heavenly present. The names of Seneca, of the elder and the younger Pliny, of Tacitus, of Plutarch, of Galen, of the slave Epictetus, and of the emperor Marcus Antoninus, adorn the age in which they flourished, and exalt the dignity of human natures.

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, Eye, Loss

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.583, e-artnow

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• May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Mother, Religious, Jesus

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• Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on it's boundless grief and how precious is our soul.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Mother, Religious, Grief

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• Always stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Mother, Religious, Sea

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