"I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul."
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"You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory."
"We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate...make the devil wait."
"The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation."
"Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever."
"If we look on heaven and earth as a single crucible, and on the creator as the founder, would there be any place I could not go? When it is time, I will fall asleep, and when the right time comes, I will wake up again."
"Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg."
"It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out."
"The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die."
"Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!"
"No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom."
"He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven."
"If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard."
"If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death."
"If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind."
"If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure."
"I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea."
"Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills."
"Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?"
"I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there."