Quotes with heaven-ward

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  • Charles III If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Martin Luther If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Aldous Huxley If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ben Elton If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Nadine Gordimer If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Doug Horton If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • William Arthur Ward If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
    Source: The First World War (1963) p. 165
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Alexander Maclaren In heaven after ''ages of ages'' of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, ''It doth not yet appear what we shall be.''
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lord George Byron In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
    Source: Childe Harold 1, 20
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Becky Stark In sorrow there is no rhyme. Dream the kind of a life that you will find
    The kind of love that lasts forever.
    Dream the kind of a life that you will find
    The kind of love that lasts forever. In heaven there is no time.
    Source: Cavalry of Light In Heaven There Is No Heat
    Becky Stark
    American artist,  singer and entertainer
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  • Henry Ward Beecher In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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