Quotes About Heaven

sublimemque feres ad sidera caeli magnanimum Aenean vv. 258, libro I

If I cannot bend the will of Heaven, I shall move hell.

Can anger so fierce stir the hearts of the dwellers in heaven?

My dear daughter—I have for some time had hope of seeing you once more in this world, but now that hope is entirely gone forever," wrote Phebe Brownrigg to her free daughter Amy Nixon, shortly before her owner took her from North Carolina to Mississippi in 1835. One of the rare letters written by a western-bound slave on her own behalf, it concluded, "May we all meet around our Father's throne in heaven, never no more to depart.

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not – Heaven help us – all having lodgment at one time or another in the human spirit?

Cats do not go to heaven. Women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare.

The spirit of peace descended like a cloud from heaven, for if the spirit of peace dwells anywhere, it is in the courts and quadrangles of Oxbridge on a fine October morning.

Heaven knows what virtue it has, this ecstatic book.

On such sunny, sad mornings I always feel in my bones that there is a chance yet of my not being excluded from Heaven, and that salvation may be granted to me despite the frozen mud and horror in my heart.

Yo me empecinaba en mi paraíso escogido: Un paraíso cuyos cielos tenían el color de las llamas infernales, pero con todo un paraiso

walk starry-eyed and reverently through this foretaste of Heaven, drinking in beauty that can influence a life.

The melacholy and the tenderness of mortal life; the passion and the pain; The claret tailight of that dwindling plane Off Hesperus; your gesture dismay On running out of cigarettes; the way You smile at dogs; the trail of silver slime Snails leave or flagstone; this good ink, this rhyme. This index card, this slender rubber band Which always forms, when dropped, an ampersand, Are found in Heaven by the newlydead Stored in its strongholds through the years.

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this — with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need — this life is hell.

White folks sure is a case!" She laid three slices of bread on top of the stove. "So spoiled with colored folks waiting on 'em all their days! Don't know what they'll do in heaven, 'cause I'm gonna sit down up there myself.

To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

The spirit of the valley never dies.It is called the subtle and profound female.The gate of the subtle and profound femaleIs the root of Heaven and Earth.It is continuous, and seems to be always existing.Use it and you will never wear it out.

Heaven's net is indeed vast.Though its meshes are wide, it misses nothing.

The Way of Heaven has no favorites.It is always with the good man.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

To undertake executions for the master executioner [Heaven] is like hewing wood for the master carpenter.Whoever undertakes to hew wood for the master carpenter rarely escapes injuring his own hands.

Heaven and Earth are not humane.They regard all things as straw dogs.

One may know the world without going out of doors.One may see the Way of Heaven without looking through the windows.The further one goes, the less one knows.Therefore the sage knows without going about,Understands without seeing,And accomplishes without any action.