My job as a minister is not only to make heaven my home, but to make my home on earth sheer heaven.
My job as a minister is not only to make heaven my home, but to make my home on earth sheer heaven.
I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything the sun came like gold through the trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven.
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
How think ye if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nibne, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. 'Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small.' This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase. One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a monk, as a disciple of the Buddha, should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
His wan eyes
Gaze on the empty scene as vacantly
As ocean's moon looks on the moon in heaven.
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Nay, said she, the saints in Heaven cannot help me now until they take me to my rest. There is no place for me in the world beyond, and all my friends were slain on the day I was taken. Leave me, brave men, and let me care for myself. Already it lightens in the east, and black will be your fate if you are taken. Go, and may the blessing of one who was once a holy nun go with you and guard you from danger.
The Definition of Beauty is
That Definition is none --
Of Heaven, easing Analysis,
Since Heaven and He are one.
And what is a kiss, specifically A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb to love. A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip 'Forever'.
Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
That kicked off quite a run for Los Lonely Boys. Their accessible, earthy brand of Latin-tinged rock earned rave reviews, with Henry Garza drawing favorable comparisons to Carlos Santana. Heaven ... a dream come true.
Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.
How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.
The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.
God is dead Heaven is empty - Weep, children, you no longer have a father.
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it'.
Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
When we die and go to Heaven, our Maker is not going to say, ''Why didn't you discover the cure for such and such'' The only thing we're going to be asked at that precious moment is ''Why didn't you become you ''
Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
Heaven means to be one with God.
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed
Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven -- Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
I don't quite understand what the synergy is between the two companies, ... Boise makes paper and OfficeMax sells it -- that's obvious. But Boise hasn't been doing well, either. The real question is, does Boise understand retailing We'll see if this marriage is made in heaven or in hell.
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
I looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory ober eberything, de sun came like gold trou de trees, and ober de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
Watching the sun rise over the ocean is making it easy for me to wake up and get out of bed. I'm not jumping up to take a shower or go to work. I'm jumping up to greet the majesty of the day, of God, of me. The majesty reminds me that God's in his heaven ... and so am I. And, heaven is a lovely place to start the day, a lovely place to live.
While yet a young probationer, And candidate of heaven.
That which I show, heaven knows, is merely love,
Duty, and zeal, to your unmatched mind,
Care of your food and living; and believe it,
My most honour'd lord,
For any benefit that points to me,
Either in hope or present, I'd exchange
For this one wish, that you had power and wealth
To requite me by making rich yourself.
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given.
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy like the heaven above.
Thou waitest for the spark from heaven!
By mere talk, people do not earn passage to Heaven.
Joy is the serious business of heaven.
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