Fault Quote by John Quincy Adams

“When heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any man, it will exercise his mind with suffering, subject his sinews and bones…

— Meng Tzu

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

— Sophocles

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

— Anne Sexton

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

— Pierre Corneille

The workings of heaven are unfathomable-sometimes encouraging, sometimes suppressing. All this makes sport of heroes and tumbles the great. Enlightened people take adversity in…

— Zicheng Hong

He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.

— Mencius

Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak…

— Martin Luther

He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the…

— Thomas Hartwell Horne

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their…

— William Blake

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones…

— Mencius

The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him.

— William Shakespeare