Heaven Quotes - Page 37

Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

All souls were created in the beginning and are finding their way back to whence they came.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.

Mais enfin, bande de critiques, les livres que vous ne comprenez pas ne vaudraient-ils pas au moins que vous les signaliez? For heaven's sake, gang of critics, don't the books which you do not understand at least deserve recognition?

If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway

Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

Directly after God in heaven comes a Papa.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

He has told us to pray, 'Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven' (Matthew 6:10). And if we have ever prayed that prayer and meant it-even once-we have ourselves shut the door on thousands of things for which we might foolishly ask.

LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.

Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases

We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the process of becoming. Consciousness itself is a flight from the here and now to the beyond. Our reach always exceeds our grasp, which is what Heaven is for.

There comes a holy and transparent time when every touch of beauty opens the heart to tears. This is the time the Beloved of heaven is brought tenderly on earth. This is the time of the opening of the ROSE.

Unlike many people today, Jesus did not teach that all religions in the world are simply different paths up the same mountain of truth that leads to God. Jesus could not have been more clear: he offers the only way to heaven.

Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.

Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology.

Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependents on heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from others in our turn; by this we become good magistrates, for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole state may be said to resemble one family.