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"What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility."
"Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go."
"The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven."
"And in eternity, faith is the only currency that counts."
"Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. It's not God in his heaven who sees everything. A kitchen chair, a clothes hanger, a half-filled ashtray, or the wooden replica of a woman named Niobe can serve perfectly well as an unforgetting witness to our every deed."
"Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. (Do the right thing even if the heavens fall.) It's not nearly as naïve a maxim as it seems, because in the real world it often turns out that doing what is morally the right thing is also, in practical terms, the right thing to do."
"When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost."
"Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed"
"Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days."
"There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—"
"The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience."
"Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans."
"Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since those only begin to ask whom heaven by grace inspires, even this minute portion of praise must not be withheld from Him. It is the privilege of the elect to be regenerated by the Spirit of God, and then placed under His guidance and government."
"You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork."
"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof."
"The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven."
"The law of heaven and earth is life for life."
"Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains [heaven]. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. What is a Lizard compared with a stallion? Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed."
"At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'"
"The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven."
