Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We must have faith during the period of our grief. We think that our afflictions will be greater than we can bear,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
How peacefully he sleep! Yet may his ever-questing spirit, freed at length from all the frettings of this little world, Wander at… — Charles R. Knight Copy Share Image
But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The sun, moon, and stars God gave to the world, but He embedded their glories in your countenance just for me. Woven… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
... wo unto that Nation or house or people who seek to hinder my People from obeying the Patriarchal Law of Abraham… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Our doctrinal obligation is to our own ancestors. This is because the celestial organization of heaven is based on families. The First… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he… — Andreas Osiander Copy Share Image
Now, where a man in this church says, 'I don't want but one wife, I will live my religion with one,' he… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
