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Quotes About Heavens

He was a meteor streaking across the heavens
~ Jane Leavy
Changes in the heavens wrought changes on the earth.
~ Janet E. Morris
The fusty showman fumbles, must Fit in a particle of dust The universe, for fear it gain Its freedom from my cube of brain. Yet dust bears seeds that grow to grace Behind my crude-striped wooden face As I, a puppet tinsel-pink Leap on my springs, learn how to think— Till like the trembling golden stalk Of some long-petalled star, I walk Through the dark heavens, and the dew Falls on my eyes and sense thrills through.
~ Edith Sitwell
I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.
~ Tracy K. Smith
What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?
~ Said Nursi
Obscure faith enlightens us somewhat like the night, which, though surrounding us with shadows, allows us to see the stars, and by them the depths of the firmament. There is here a mingling of light and shade which is extremely beautiful. That we may see the stars, the sun must hide, night must begin. Amazingly, in the obscurity of night we see to a far greater distance than in the day; we see even the distant stars, which reveal to us the immense expanse of the heavens.
~ Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Thereafter, I showed how the greatest part of the matter of this chaos must, in accordance with these laws, dispose and arrange itself in such a way as to present the appearance of heavens;
~ Rene Descartes
thought I had said enough respecting them to show that there is nothing observable in the heavens or stars of our system that must not, or at least may not appear precisely alike in those of the system which I described.
~ Rene Descartes
Creation is the work of the Word; it is also, and by this very fact, His manifestation, his outward affirmation; and this is why the world is like a divine language, for those who know how to understand it: Caeli enarrant gloriam Dei (The heavens declare the glory of God, Ps. XIX:2)
~ Rene Guenon
The land beyond rose into dizzying mountains. Far across the way a frozen waterfall resembled a charging lion. The trees were shrouded in white, a vision of the heavens.
~ Rene Denfeld
Good heavens." Wolfe pushed back his chair, not of course with violence, but with determination. "Archie. Understand this. As a man of action you are tolerable, you are even competent. But I will not for one moment put up with you as a psychologist. I
~ Rex Stout
At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.
~ Richard Aldington
Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!
~ Rick Riordan
I, Horus, son of Osiris, claim the throne of the heavens as my birthright! he shouted.What was once mine shall be mine again.Is there anyone who would challenge me? The gods flickered and glowed. A few scowled. One muttered something that sounded like Cheese, although that could've been my imagination.
~ Rick Riordan
Intoxicated as he was with the heavens, he could not imagine needing anything on earth.
~ Katherine Paterson
Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!
~ Rudyard Kipling
The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.
~ James Martineau
The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centerObserve degree, priority, and place,Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,Office, and custom, in all line of order.
~ William Shakespeare
There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.
~ William Shakespeare
O heavens! this is my true-begotten father.
~ William Shakespeare
Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong;And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
~ William Wordsworth
We need to be impressed with these words in verse [2 Cor. 1:]9—"we should not base our confidence on ourselves but on God." Through the redemption of Christ, the very God, who is in the heavens, has come into us, into our spirit (Col. 1:27; 2 Tim. 4:22). Thank the Lord that He is now in our spirit, calling us to forget about the soulish things and turn to our spirit to meet Him. We should no longer trust in our self, in our soul, but in God who is in our spirit.
~ Witness Lee
The evening sky seemed so close you could touch it, and at that moment, as if they had been awaiting our arrival, the lights came on. The stadium looked like a spaceship descended from the heavens.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Have you not yet learned that it is easier to pull a star down from the heavens than to bend a woman to your will?
~ Deanna Raybourn