#heaven

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ↗

— John Calvin

#christ #heavenly #knowledge #much #science

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#gift #heavenly #highest #hung #intellect

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#every #every man #great #great deal #heaven

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#amid #been #called #charming #country

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered. ↗

— Julie Christie

#did #empowered #films #heaven #i

His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. “Love me, Elizabeth.” Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she looked at him without flinching. “I do. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#elizabeth #ian #judith-mcnaught #love

Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be partakers of our honey talk. (Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54) ↗

— Marlowe Christopher

#heaven #love #stars #whisper #love

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? ↗

— Robert Browning

#exceed #grasp #heaven #his #man

Адът е тук и сега. Раят също. Престани да се плашиш от ада и да мечтаеш за рая, защото и едното, и другото е заложено в настоящия миг. Всеки път, когато се влюбим, се въздигаме в рая. Всеки път, когато мразим, завиждаме или се опълчваме срещу някого, падаме право в адския огън. ↗

— Elif Shafak

#heaven-and-hell #hell #love

It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert,but I'm holding you closer than most,'cause you are my heaven. ↗

— Ron Pope

#heaven #love #ron-pope #wishing #love