"Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds."
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"So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you."
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"The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow."
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"God created... light anddark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite."Including matter itself, antimatter""
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"It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all."
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"Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven."
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"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best."
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"So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth."
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"To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven."
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"I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there."
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"No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim."
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"From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof."
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"If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless."
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"I ask the Lord in Heaven above / What is this thing called Love?"
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"Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak!"
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"All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great."
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"Whatever heaven ordains is best."
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"I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of that joy. ... I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined."
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"Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven."
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"The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God."
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