Best Heaven Quotations
5775 Heaven quotes by 2623 unique authors
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to…
— C.S. Lewis
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Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth; from self-assertion, therefore…
— Laozi
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like…
— Laozi
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Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.
— Laozi
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The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without strife.…
— Laozi
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The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in…
— J. G. Holland
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If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to…
— Charles Dickens
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Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does for many, the…
— Pope John Paul II
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The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil…
— Benjamin Peirce
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
— Juvenal
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How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net…
— Hsu Yun
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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would be…
— Richard Sibbes
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I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through…
— Brigit of Kildare
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The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again…
— William Beebe
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The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is…
— John Cassian
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An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by…
— John Climacus
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It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men…
— George Ellery Hale
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Look at Satan's reason for rebelling against God. It's not that he doesn't recognize that God is greater than he is. He does. It's just…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise…
— Rick Reynolds
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The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord…
— Karl Barth
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God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.
— George MacDonald
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How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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