The Way of Heaven does not compete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory.
The Way of Heaven does not compete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory.
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye do not even the publicans the same.
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Spires whose 'silent finger points to heaven.'
Of actor Stephen Collins, who stars as the Rev. Eric Camden in 7th Heaven, ... He makes an excellent father figure. He's not the dumb one in the household. He's communicative, he's responsible, he's involved in his kids' lives. He's a great role model.
If there's another level of heaven, that's where I'm at,
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.
King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.
To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.
Oh Heaven, and the terrible crystal!
We are under the United States. But the United States is not the kingdom of God. It does not profess to be under his rule, nor his government, nor his authority.... Very well, what is expected of us That we observe its laws, that we conform to its usages, that we are governed by good and wholesome principles, that we maintain the laws in their integrity and that we sustain the government. And we ought to do it.... We ought to pray ... for those that are in authority, that they may be led in the right way, that they may be preserved from evil, that they may administer the government in righteousness, and that they may pursue a course that will receive the approbation of heaven.
When a man dies, what does not leave him The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space.
I never did
Offend you in my life; never loved Cassio
But with such general warranty of heaven
As I might love.
I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.
The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus 'The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion....'
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven We know her woof, her texture she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
It felt like a slice of heaven.
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven.
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
Than Heaven more remote,
For Heaven is the root,
But these the flitted seed.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Yes, I believe in a heaven for all dogdom
where my dog waits for my arrival
waving his fan-like tail in friendship.
There were four or five big tours that went out last year. I got asked to do all of them. There was a Heaven 17 one and a Culture Club one.
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
Ask not of me, love, what is love Ask what is good of God above Ask of the great sun what is light Ask what is darkness of the night Ask sin of what may be forgiven Ask what is happiness of Heaven Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss Ask of thyself what beauty is.
So to live is heaven:
To make undying music in the world,
Breathing a beauteous order that controls
With growing sway the growing life of man.
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. Gods residence is next to mine His furniture is love.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
BAPTISM, n. A sacred rite of such efficacy that he who finds himself in heaven without having undergone it will be unhappy forever. It is performed with water in two ways --by immersion, or plunging, and by aspersion, or sprinkling.But whether the plan of immersion Is better than simple aspersion Let those immersed And those aspersed Decide by the Authorized Version, And by matching their agues tertian. --G.J.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
We've been very see-through about our intentions, and people appreciate that. The thing about this scene and the generation of bands before us that everybody touted -- nobody can live up to the pressure of being called the next Nirvana. Nobody can live up to that.
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong that the bumblebee can fly that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
Lose who may I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Memories are meant to be a gift--a powerful point of focus to create ourselves a heaven, but often misused for hell.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an afterlife of some sort, but not a 'before-life' Why are there so many versions of Heaven, Paradise and The Great Beyond, but almost none about The Great
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
I think they're a match made in heaven.
This world is dark, few only can see here a few only go to heaven, like birds escaped from the net.
If they hang all the 16 of our colleagues, we do not mind because we know they would be martyrs and will go straight to heaven.
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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