Heaven Quotes - Page 63

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.

Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor - Both thanks and use.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Heaven give you many, many merry days.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.

I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them.

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

In '7th Heaven,' more than 'Teen Wolf,' was that I got to learn more about my character. In 'Teen Wolf,' I'd always get a new arc for that character every season, which was discovery for me.

'7th Heaven' was a big ensemble cast, so everyone would get a turn. Basically, I'd get a script that focused on my character and think, 'Oh, I'm working every day this week.' The mindset was I've got more to do, so I had to focus.

They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies. [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte. Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

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.