Pastoral Resources

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell.

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.