#heaven

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. ↗

— Epictetus

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The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#being #different #earth #fire #heart

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#fairy tales #fall #gifts #heaven #only

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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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#between #father #heart #heavenly #heavenly father

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven. ↗

— Delphine de Girardin

#admires #exceeding #fire #heaven #human

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ. ↗

— William Gurnall

#armour #christ #day #else #glory

There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas that she did not believe either in hell or in ghosts. Hell she thought was merely an invention got up by the priest to keep people good; and ghosts would not be permitted, she held, to go 'trapsin about the earth' at their own free will; 'but there are faeries,' she added, 'and little leprechauns, and water-horses, and fallen angels.' I have met also a man with a mohawk Indian tattooed upon his arm, who held exactly similar beliefs and unbeliefs. No matter what one doubts one never doubts the faeries, for, as the man with the mohawk Indian on his arm said to me, 'they stand to reason.' Even the official mind does not escape this faith. ("Reason and Unreason") ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#faery #fairy #fey #heaven #hell

We read about the name Jesus was given at his birth; Immanuel, meaning “God with us”. This God wasn’t content with dwelling in fiction, this God wasn’t content living with the seraphim and this God wasn’t content with bulls and goats anymore. This God wanted to dwell with you, with all of your mess, with all of your failures with all the dirtiness that is you; he wanted to sit with you. Here’s the amazing thing, God doesn’t care if you’re a catholic, a Lutheran, Post modern or Emergent; he wants to sit with you. ↗

— Ricky Maye

#earth #emergent #emerging #failure #faith