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Quotes About Heaven

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk my dream aloud - I build it bright to see, - I build it on the moonlit cloud, To which I looked with thee.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
O]ut of books / He taught me all the ignorance of men, / And how God laughs in heaven when any man / Says 'Here I'm learned; this, I understand; / In that, I am never caught at fault or doubt.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Earth's crammed with Heaven, But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Some would say a whore don't have no expectation of Heaven. I'd say, if she gives value for cash, she's got a better shot at God's blessing than your average banker. Jesus loved Mary Magdalene. He kicked over tables when He met a moneylender.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I was so caught up in thinking about what might happen when I got to Heaven that I forgot to die on the way down at all.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Benedick's domaine was a heaven, bigger than Mallory's, full of stark black-limbed trees, twig-rimmed in ice. They came on a high ledge overlooking a valley of sorts, the whole thing dark with true night and frozen cold.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The storm has passed." He nodded toward the clearing skies. "The stars have come out." He paused and gazed upward. "I miss them when I'm not at sea. Out on the ocean they sparkle all around you. 'Tis like standing at the gates of heaven." "Sounds glorious.
~ Elizabeth Boyle
Te Amo - susurró Tristan -. Te he amado desde el primer momento que te vi. Mi amor por ti jamás morirá. Es Eterno. Te lo juro aquí, a medio camino entre el Cielo y la Tierra.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
Te Amo - susurró Tristan -. Te he amado desde el primero momento que te vi. Mi amor por ti jamás morirá. Es Eterno. Te lo juro aquí, a medio camino entre el Cielo y la Tierra.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
The heaven had cried out for joy, and the earth had answered, and between the two the smell of the gorse rose up like ascending prayer and linked them together. Music and scent were alive once more in the world; only color tarried, waiting upon the sun.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears. So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, I'm afraid. There is no use in mourning one such as I, dearest... -Simon to Lucy in a letter before the last duel.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
The fallen angels arrived in Hell when they were thrown out of Heaven?' 'That's right.' 'They took over.' 'A small number of angels is stronger than a great number of demons. They're like the men with the guns. Except no one can take their guns.
~ Elizabeth Knox
Xas wouldn't show Flora the fine print, because what all the old songs had to say was true—in Heaven there was no trouble
~ Elizabeth Knox
Not all angels come from Heaven,' Xas said. Then, 'I'm a fallen angel.
~ Elizabeth Knox
I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.
~ Elizabeth of the Trinity
It seems to me that I have found my Heaven on earth, since Heaven is God, and God is [in] my soul.3 The day I understood that, everything became clear to me. I would like to whisper this secret to those I love so they too might always cling to God through everything,
~ Elizabeth of the Trinity Catez
INSTEAD OF LIVING CAUTIOUSLY AS IF DEATH IS THE ENEMY … I decided to live life fully and know that heaven is my friend.
~ Elizabeth Richardson
privately Galileo thought the condemnation of Copernicus was wrong. "The Bible tells us how to go to Heaven," he once quipped, "not how the heavens go.
~ Arthur Herman
This Platonized Christian God also made Plato's Forms seem more real, as the eternal patterns existing in the mind of God out of which He built heaven, earth, and the rest of His creation.
~ Arthur Herman
Thanks to Boethius, Aristotle's logic was now available to apply the same test to Christianity's weightiest assertions about God, heaven and hell, and the Church's most cherished views about human beings and nature.
~ Arthur Herman
And every day,' he went on, 'we lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, but who is the other that hides in me?
~ Arthur Machen
As far as I can make out modern Protestantism believes that Heaven is something like Evensong in an English cathedral, the service by Stainer and the Dean preaching. For those opposed to dogma of any kind — even the mildest — I suppose it is held that a Course of Ethical Lectures will be arranged.
~ Arthur Machen