#heaven

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands. ↗

— Bob Feller

#clean #clean up #heaven #i #into

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. ↗

— Jesus Christ

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I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#camel #easier #enter #eye #go

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#go #heaven #perfect #poor #possessions

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell. ↗

— Will Carleton

#fifteen #fifteen minutes #good #heaven #hell

I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell. ↗

— Will Carleton

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Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven. ↗

— Freddy Fender

#first #going #heaven #hillbilly #hopefully

Heaven means to be one with God. ↗

— Confucius

#heaven #means

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#center #centuries #conception #consensus #earth