You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
Ben Nicholson
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We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
Humphrey Gilbert
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Heaven is a very distinct place, where only God's elect will go. It's the place where the only One who deserves any glory lives and reigns.
Monica Johnson
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor
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For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron
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If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.
Tamsin Greig
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I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
Goldwin Smith
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Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.
Josephine Baker
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
Salma Hayek
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On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church.
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
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Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
Ralph Abernathy
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There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
Frederick Douglass
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Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.
Jon Krakauer
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I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'
Pat Conroy
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I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor.
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It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
Octavia E. Butler
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Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson
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