Defined Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defined Heaven Men Might Spiritual Spirituality
All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“Heaven is a condition and a sanctified nature toward which all godly striving tends; it is not a place to be found by walking… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means. — Rudolf G. Binding Copy Share Image
“Perhaps men were not meant to live in such a place. If their own natures restrained them from approaching heaven too closely, then men… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the… — Robert Foster Bennett Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
