Heaven Quotes - Page 92

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

The sweetest music this side of heaven.

Jesus took His place in a manger so that we might have a home in Heaven.

The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that time is not far distant. How I wish we could get the vision of this work, the genius of it, and realize the nearness of that great event. I am sure it would have a sobering effect upon us if we realized what is before us.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour.

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.

I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.

The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might.

Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do good to society, without shutting yourself up in a monastery at other people's expense, and without expecting a reward up aloft for it--you'll find that a bit harder.

We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away?

Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.