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The further humans move from hunters to horticulturists to agriculturists to urbanisation to industrialists, the further the sacred recedes, first to heaven, then condensed to monotheism and finally it dies in irony.

The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.

The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

The gate of heaven is everywhere.

The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it.

The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.

The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.

The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved - cursed, not worshiped. A heaven presided over by such a God must be below the lowest hell.

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

The Gods have meant That I should dance And in some mystic hour I shall move to unheard rhythms Of the cosmic orchestra of heaven And you will know the language Of my wordless poems And will come to me For that is why I dance.

The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.

The good news is that we don't last. Thank heavens! Because to continue the drama of who you are, is boring, ultimately. The universe is our friend because it kills us - and that's what friends are for.

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

The government of heaven, if wickedly administered, would become one of the worst governments upon the face of the earth. No matter how good a government is, unless it is administered by righteous men, an evil government will be made of it.

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.

The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.

The greatest good that can come to anyone is forming within them an absolute certainty of themselves, and of their relationship to the Universe, forever removing the sense of heaven as being outside of them.

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When like and dislike are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction however and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.

The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.

The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.

The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.

The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.