Quotes About Heavens

Trouble fell like rain from the heavens, and we just couldn't get enough of it. We went around picking up the stuff and cramming our pockets full of it. Even now I can't figure out why we persisted in doing that. Maybe we mistook it for something else.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers; because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the heavens... and everything below the earth... must be an atheist.

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

You should know the truth about the stars--- even though it seems like they're close together, up there in heavens, they're zillion light years apart.

Law and Chaos? I said. They're not the same as good and evil, I'm told. Merciful heavens, no! Not at all. Not at all. Evil is a cruel and selfish thing. Chaos can be wild and generous, and just as some Lords of Law are self-sacrificing and concerned for others, so are some Lords of Chaos.

a much better and certainly more useful antonym for "spiritual" might be "egotistical." Self and Spirit define the opposite ends of a spectrum, but that spectrum needn't reach clear to the heavens to have meaning for us. It can stay right here on earth.

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

I think I sound like the apocalypse destroying the Earth to the sounds of trumpets skating across the heavens played by angels.

For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.

The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

You would be hard pressed, I would submit, to find a better pairing of occurrences to illustrate the divine and felonious nature of the human being—a species of organism that is capable of unravelling the deepest secrets of the heavens while at the same time pounding into extinction, for no purpose at all, a creature that never did us any harm and wasn't even remotely capable of understanding what we were doing to it as

Ye should see my massive claymore. Oh, good heavens, Jane muttered from behind them. What now? he asked. A claymore's a fine weapon, long and heavy, and a wonder when ye ken how to use it correctly. Abruptly Amelia-Rose didn't think they were talking about swords. And you know how to use yours correctly? Aye. I'm something of an artist, ye might say. I'd like to show it to ye, lass.

The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightening and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

Instruments of magecraft were everywhere apparent, polished skulls, star charts, a long eastern window from which personally to observe the heavens, a crystal of clairvoyance minted in brass.

little-known fact, though not unacknowledged by my scientist's eye, is that the ceiling of Grand Central is actually backward. It is a mirror image of the night sky; lore holds that the artist was working from a medieval manuscript that showed the heavens not from within but from without—not mankind's view but God's. I

In our tradition, God says, "The heavens and the earth cannot contain Me." We know there are billions of stars and galaxies. Yet the Divine is saying, "No, all of that cannot contain Me. Only the heart of my faithful servant, the knower, is expansive enough to contain Me." It's a very high truth. (p. 80)

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

The ones who send out the eternally unchanging prayer. The winged ones flying in the heavens... flapping the wings of happiness, full of love. It's a premonition that's almost like certainty. Someday there will be a chance meeting. We're sure to be drawn to each other. This is not the end. Beloved ones gathered by fate. Neither god nor human. The ones born wrapped in a dazzling love. They are called angels.

The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

When Mark records the baptism of Jesus, he says that Jesus saw the heavens "splitting apart" (Mark 1:10 NLT). The Greek term for this word is the same used in Exodus 14:21 in the Greek Old Testament.* Exodus 14:21 is speaking about the "splitting apart" ("dividing") of the Red Sea at Israel's exodus.