#heaven

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#fixed #heaven #highest #stars #things

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#comparison #does #earth #heavens #indeed

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#bias #content #contrary #flesh #hard

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#early #grave #graves #heaven #infants

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below! ↗

— Edmund Waller

#below #essay #heaven #hope #know

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies. ↗

— Tina Turner

#conversations #heaven #i #notes #symphonies

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#both #darkness #eclipse #glory #go

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#enough #heaven #horrors #human #human mind

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#big #great #heaven #idea #potato

After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me. ↗

— John Woolman

#attended #fail #follow #frequently #given