#heaven

After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me. ↗

— John Woolman

#attended #fail #follow #frequently #given

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. ↗

— Andrew Young

#fool #heaven #hold #idlers #lay

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#am #concerned #dreamt #earth #heaven

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds. ↗

— Robert Greene

#deeds #exceeds #far #heaven #placed

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#afterlife #computers #dark #fairy #heaven

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature. ↗

— Eliza Haywood

#draw #great #heavenly #more #much

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. ↗

— George Herbert

#bridge #cannot #ever #everyone #forgive

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#certain #day #diabolical #die #doubt

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#deeds #gun #heaven #target #thoughts

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell? ↗

— Douglas Horton

#first #heaven #hell #line #scramble