"When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"
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"The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory."
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"All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will"
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"The love of heaven makes one heavenly."
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"Patch up thine old body for heaven."
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"I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females."
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"And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?"
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"The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than as they shall reign hereafter; and yet, though the tares grow in the Church along with the wheat, they do not reign with Him. For they reign with Him who do what the apostle says, 'If you are risen with Christ, mind the things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Seek those things which are above, not the things which are on the earth'."
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"Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven."
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"This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown."
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"Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell."
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"Respect is heaven, respect is liberation."
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"It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven."
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"Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court."
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"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."
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"To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell."
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"Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death."
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"It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one."
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"Earth is crammed with heavens."
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"Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close."
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