"Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]"
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"There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]"
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"I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting."
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"Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!"
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"Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven."
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"If we would know what heaven is before we come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirits, and we shall find it there among holy thoughts and feelings."
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"The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven."
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"Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday."
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"There is turmoil under the heavens. The prospects are excellent."
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"The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there is not a square inch of ground in heaven or on earth or under the earth in which there is peace between Christ and Satan."."
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"You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman."
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"You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be."
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"What does it feel like to be infected?" "I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't breathe, can't breathe, can't breathe. His skin smells like smoke from a wood fire, like soap, like heaven. I imagine tasting his skin; I imagine biting his lips. "I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you."
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"Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted."
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"I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below."
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"We do not have to die to enter the kingdom of Heaven, In fact we have to be fully alive. When we are truly alive we see that the tree is part of Heaven and we are also part of Heaven. The whole universe is conspiring to reveal this to us. Peace is available and when we touch it everything becomes real. We become ourselves, fully alive in the present moment."
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"Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth."
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"I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it."
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"Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia."
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"There is much to be said for trying to improve some disadvantaged people’s lot. There is nothing to be said for trying to create heaven on earth."
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