Heavenly Quotes - Page 5

• In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Mother, Religious, Jesus

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• The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.

  Joseph Campbell

  Realms, Relate

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• Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach 'back to nature' or 'forward to a world of love and beauty'; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell - that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.

  Karl Popper

  Beautiful, Dream, Attitude

  Karl Raimund Popper (1950). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”

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• We need strength beyond ourselves to keep the commandments in whatever circumstance life brings to us. The combination of trials and their duration are as varied as are the children of our Heavenly Father. No two are alike. But what is being tested is the same, at all times in our lives and for every person: will we do whatsoever the Lord our God will command us?

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Father, Adversity

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• Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Challenges, Problem, Forget

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• Heavenly Father, thank You so much for Your grace. Your forgiveness is SO good that I struggle with believing it at times. Thank You for rescuing me from myself and giving me Your Holy Spirit. Your love is better than life.

  Francis Chan

  Father, Believe, Struggle

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.5, David C Cook

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• One of the possible reasons why we might be good is that we're frightened, frightened of God. We want the reward in Heaven, we don't want to go to Hell. That would be an ignoble, ignominious reason for being good, and I think that if anybody was good to you just because they hoped for a heavenly reward, you wouldn't respect them, you'd probably give them a wide berth.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Giving, Heaven

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". "The Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

  Anthony Burgess

  World, Violence, Life Is

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.126, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural, and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between child and parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.

  Rosalind Goforth

  Spiritual, Prayer, Children

  Rosalind Goforth (2016). “How I Know God Answers Prayer”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The Bible is the statute-book of God's Kingdom, wherein is comprised the whole body of the heavenly law, the perfect rules of a holy life, and the sure promises of a glorious one.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  Book, Law, Perfect

  Ezekiel Hopkins (19??). “Exposition of the Commandments”

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• The mystery of God's providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It is at a loss when it attempts to search into the eternal decrees of election or the entangled mazes and labyrinths in which the divine providence walks. This knowledge is too wonderful for us. Man can be very confident that God exercises the most accurate providence over him and his affairs. Nothing comes to pass without our heavenly Father. No evil comes to pass without his permissive providence, and no good without his ordaining providence to his own ends.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  Running, Father, Loss

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• Heavenly comfort, rather, is truth, which blows away human fantasies that we can live forever, control everything, or fake our lives before God.

  Sarah Miles

  Blow, Fake, Forever

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• Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

  Hafez

  Secret

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• Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will of our Heavenly Father. Without all three--first, absolute confidence; second, action; and third, absolute conformity--without these three all we have is a counterfeit, a weak and watered-down faith.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Father, Three, Firsts

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• I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands and thanking the Lord for the meals that the dear women had prepared, as if the whole came down like manna from heaven. So I preached a sermon in the blessing I gave. You will notice that it has three heresies in it: Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Mother, Husband, Father

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• The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

  John Calvin

  Bible, Christian, Kings

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• The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Voice, Atheism

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• Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Father, Dust, Hands

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.561, Harvard University Press

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• Please do not put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience.

  John Edward

  Expectations, Scary, Please

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• If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare,
  One cordial in this melancholy vale,
  'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair
  In other's arms breathe out the tender tale

  Robert Burns

  Heaven, Arms, Pairs

  Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.42

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• Love's the only thing I've thought of or read about since I was knee-high. That's what I always dreamed of, of meeting somebody and falling in love. And when that remarkable thing happened, I was going to recite poetry to her for hours about how her heart's an angel's wing and her hair the strings of a heavenly harp. Instead I got drunk and hollered at her and called her a harpy.

  Ben Hecht

  Love, Fall, Heart

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• Lord, You have told me who You are, You have in mercy revealed Yourself to me, I know You to be that blessed 'gift of God' which alone can save and satisfy my soul. The depth and compass of heavenly love are manifested in You, and You have shown me, not my need only, but the sufficiency of Your grace and power to meet it. I am an empty sinner, You are a full Christ!

  Susannah Spurgeon

  Blessed, Grace, Soul

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• The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Soul, Use, Truth Is

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.30, Bethany House

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• I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Country, Thinking, Mouths

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• If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls "mounting up with wings as eagles" to the "heavenly places" in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Jesus, Eagles, Wings

  HANNAH WHITALL SMITH (1952). “THE CHRISTIANS SECRET OF A HAPPY LIFE”

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