#heaven

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ↗

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. ↗

#displaying #eternal #eyes #glories #ground

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France. ↗

— Joan of Arc

#debt #duke #england #france #good

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#farthest #heart #heaven #into #loving

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. ↗

— William Blake

#flower #grain #grain of sand #hands #heaven

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#city #enter #further #gaze #heaven

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. ↗

— Giovanni Boccaccio

#enjoyment #experienced #had #heaven #indeed

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#being #contradiction #epitome #existence #feel

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ↗

— George Eliot

#affection #altogether #attachment #faults #heaven

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. ↗