Heaven Quotes - Page 98

These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.

There is a saying that Heaven is internal, humanity external and Virtue comes from the Heavenly. Know Heaven and humanity's actions, root yourself in Heaven and follow Virture.Then you can bend, stretch, rush forward or hold back, because you will always return to the core and it will be said you have achieved the supreme.

There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.

Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do so is their TAO. But it is not from extensive study that this may be known, nor by dialectical skill that his may be made clear. The true sage will have none of these.

When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.

Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.

The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.

The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him.

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA: I'll set a bourne how far to be belov'd. ANTONY: Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.

My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.

The will is that which has all power; it makes heaven and it makes hell: for there is no hell but where the will of the creature is turned from God, nor any heaven but where the will of the creature worketh with God.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!

Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .