Thomas Carlyle Quotes about Heaven

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All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

Thomas Carlyle

Work, Hands, Heaven

Thomas Carlyle (1885*). “Complete Works: Frederick the Great, v. 7. Past and present. The portraits of John Knox. Miscellanies”

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

Thomas Carlyle

Men, Miracle, Heaven

Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!

Thomas Carlyle

Lying, Heaven, Soul

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.140

The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

Thomas Carlyle

Wise, Science, Heaven

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.341, Lulu.com

Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine.

Thomas Carlyle

Life, Heaven, Chance

Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.473

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

Thomas Carlyle

Heaven, Littles, Hell

"Past and Present and Chartism".

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

Thomas Carlyle

Home, Science, Heaven

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

Thomas Carlyle

Philosophy, Philosophical, Heaven

"Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

Thomas Carlyle

Kings, War, Heaven

"Sartor Resartus: The Historian".