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The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.

The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.

The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven, The power, which in a sense belongs to none, Thus understood belongs to every one.

The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here

The principle of faith is as firm as the very pillars of heaven.

The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the ground over which the campaign must be waged. The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.

The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.

The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens.

The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

The quickest way to release heaven on earth is to worship. Worship is the main activity of heaven and the destiny of all created things.

There ain't been no angels in heaven around since God invented girls.

There are a lot of good people going to Hell, and a lot of bad people like you and me going to Heaven!

There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft.

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life just as it is, in all its incompleteness, yet, this is where Heaven starts.. see within yourself, if you can find it. I walked through the field in front of the house, lots of swallows flying, everywhere! Some very near me..it was magical. "We are already one, yet we know it not.

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

There are going to be animals in Heaven. The prophet Isaiah said that the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, ... and the lion shall eat straw like the ox (Isaiah 11:6-9).

There are many likewise, who go on in a round of duties, a model of performances, that think they shall go to heaven; but if you examine them, though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.

There are no physical divisions in the subtle domain and therefore no barriers between heaven and hell, light and shadow.

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.

There are only three great powers in the universe: God in heaven, the pope in the Vatican and Dadá in the great box.

There are places on earth where we can catch a glimpse of heaven.

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.

There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

The reason the church doesn't deal with some of these questions about Heaven is they're afraid of the answers! If you could have babies in Heaven, then you could have sex in Heaven!-And that's horrifying to the churches!

The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.

There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

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 he is distinguished; from self-glorification, therefore he has merit; from self-exaltation, therefore he rises superior to all. Inasmuch as he does not strive, there is no one in the world who can strive with him.

Therefore it is the law of the mystics to see all things, to experience all things, either of heaven or earth, and yet to say little; for the souls incapable of understanding the possibility of their reach will ridicule them.

There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.

There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though it were situated somewhere on the moon! That choice is a choice - let me put it quite brutally - between heaven and hell. ... But it is not a choice between a heaven or a hell beyond the grave; it is a choice between making heaven or making hell on this side of the grave, and in this world, here and now.

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.