#heaven

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#arms #because #both #contemplate #creation

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst. ↗

— George Farquhar

#expressions #grant #heavens #i #me

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

#against #also #boils #brought #character

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

#evil #father #heaven #his #i

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

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

— Freddy Fender

#first #going #heaven #hillbilly #hopefully

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. ↗