How To Use Heaven In A Sentence

  • I do not of course mean, Heaven forbid! that people should try to converse seriously; that results in the worst kind of dreariness, in feeling, as Stevenson said, that one has the brain of a sheep and the eyes of a boiled codfish. From a College Window
  • If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered. 
  • In heaven the seraphim criticize the cherubim, who look down on the thrones: the original bureaucracy. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
  • Some great new players and the captainship of Catty lifting the team no end, thank heavens. RIP Fatboy, Blogger TV & stuff
  • Not one bum track on this album and I was in heaven playing it.
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  • On a warm day, heaven is a bottle of chilled wine, a plate of seafood, and a table with a view.
  • I looked heavenwards as if hoping for a miraculous infusion of patience and tried hard to conceal my irritation. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • She is anything but a twitterer, though - it is the warmth of the voice that makes it truly heavenly.
  • According to my teachers, only Catholics who kept the commandments had a real shot at Heaven.
  • Her eyes missed nothing; her dainty close-set ears heard all -- the short, dry note of a chewink, the sweet, wholesome song of the cardinal, the thrilling cries of native jays and woodpeckers, the heavenly outpoured melody of the Florida wren, perched on some tiptop stem, throat swelling under the long, delicate, upturned bill. The Firing Line
  • The edification of this house is gradually to be perfected more and more till the coming of Christ, by laying the foundation of Christianity, in bringing men still unto Christ, and carrying on the superstruction in perfecting them in Christ in all spiritual growth, till at last the top-stone be laid on, the Church completed, and translated _to the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens_. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
  • You will soon have a thick, impenetrable hedge to enclose the fast-growing butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii (coppice it annually to promote flowers), or the heavenly blue blooms of enthusiastic ceanothus thrysiflorus.
  • Evans sees tree of heaven and Japanese barberry, garlic mustard and stilt grass invading the heart of the forest.
  • The Sea is heaven's own blue like a diamond more lovely in a king's diadem than in the mines of the Indes but as it gushes up through the broken ice-like salt, it is black, full of asphalte scum - and in the hand slimy, and smarting as a sting.
  • At school, like my peers, I was indoctrinated in the mysteries of original and venal sin, virgin birth, the respective criteria for entry to limbo, purgatory, and heaven.
  • a final leave of great Circe; who by her art calmed the heavens, and gave them smooth seas, and a right forewind (the seaman's friend) to bear them on their way to Ithaca. The Adventures of Ulysses
  • I beg for each and all of you confirmations and assistance from the threshold of oneness, so that those gatherings may become ignited like unto candles, in the republics of America, enkindling the light of the love of God in the hearts; thus the rays of the heavenly teachings may begem and brighten the states of America like the infinitude of immensity with the stars of the Most Great Guidance. Tablets of the Divine Plan
  • It is unknown to men of noble mind; it does not lead to heaven; on earth it causes disgrace, O Arjuna. THE DICE MAN
  • hear our prayers, Heavenly Father
  • She shook her fists to the heavens at the injustice of it all.
  • Overhead, the stars wheel in the heavens and a bright, bright moon shines down on the fields and on the house itself, for it's clear tonight.
  • All movement ceases, the sky clears, the heavens are as brass; the slightest whisper seems sacrilege, and man becomes timid, affrighted at the sound of his own voice. THE WHITE SILENCE
  • I should see and heare some Oracles from the heavens, and from the gleed of the Sun. The Golden Asse
  • As such daily refit their bodily strength till they reach Jerusalem, so the spiritual worshipper is daily supplied with spiritual strength by God's grace till he appears before God in heaven. appeareth ... Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Heavens to Betsy,” Helga murmured, cantilevering her head out sideways over her body to survey the damage. Bootstraps
  • And the Gospel of Mark would declare that on my im - mersion, the heavens opened and I saw "a spirit like a dove descending. The Gospel according to the Son
  • An ancient Hopi Prophecy states. When the Blue Star Kachina makes its appearance in the heavens the 5th world will emerge.
  • Now here is what is interesting, the worshippers of Mithras strongly believed in a celestial heaven and an infernal hell.
  • But Robin Turner, the Vines's A&R man and long-term confidant at their UK label Heavenly, always thought his habit was a hindrance, not a help. The Trouble With Spikol
  • The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens, than that which I now affirm is true. Chapter 3
  • The children the seventh heaven with their new toys.
  • Ex-forces personnel could be the manna from heaven employers are seeking.
  • Self-assessment would also provide a heaven-sent opportunity to rid the nation of estate agents, while increasing our wealth.
  • Never leaving his side, we will gather and store up all of the holy and loving thoughts inspired by the presence of the Lord of heaven and earth.
  • Now the first bolt of lightning stabs the earth. It is heaven's exclamation point 3.
  • The singing, which was acapella, sounded as though a throng of angels in heaven had joined us. The Art of Frederick Morgan: Examples of 19th Century Modest, Feminine Dress
  • The light of heaven enwraps them: their faces and their forms become harmonious to me with the harmony of the Universe.
  • This is one guy who has managed to get shedloads of money out of his followers by that old and trusted trick of telling them the world's going to end, so they won't need all those possessions and cash that'll bar them entry into heaven.
  • The muddy tide flat smelled to high heaven.
  • My good friends of masher persuasion are in seventh heaven when they have the opportunity of admiring eight pretty faces.
  • My top dish was the heavenly grilled semolina & fresh goats cheese gnocchi and panfried artichokes with broad beans & marjoram, lemon cream and caramelised beetroot…
  • Heaven had taken her Grandmother and then Grandfather, and now it took her papa too, would her mother be next?
  • If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered. 
  • The highest conception we can form of heaven is the reversal of all the evil of earth, and the completion of its incomplete good: the sinless purity -- the blessed presence of God -- the fulfilment of all desires -- the service which is _blessed_, not toil -- the changelessness which is progress, not stagnation. Expositions of Holy Scripture
  • Peruvians' notion of an afterlife very much follows Catholic notions of heaven, purgatory, and hell.
  • [A] divine fire coming down visibly, with a terrible noise, from heaven upon the holy community of sisters while they were praising God in their psalmody. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • And tonight's timbale is one more good reason why - the kitchen smelled heavenly! Archive 2005-07-01
  • Anaxagoras compounded this heresy by alleging that the stars were insensate bodies as well, stones carried in orbit by the rapid movement of the heavens and that occasionally a stone might detach itself to become a falling star.
  • As she turned with ardent zeal to her work -- which indeed had not failed of accustomed conduct so far as routine went -- tell me what do you find in those lovely eyes if not the heavenliest assurances? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
  • She says those who believe will go to heaven.
  • The Midrash says that the Third Temple has already been constructed in heaven, and merely awaits our preparations here on earth.
  • If I cannot smoke cigars in Heaven, I shall not go. Mark Twain 
  • If body language was anything to go by, this was indeed a marriage made in heaven.
  • Then the Emir Salamah and his wife and household and all the tribesmen donned garbs black-hued and ashes whereupon to sit they strewed, and ungrateful to them was the taste of food and drink, meat and wine; nor ceased they to beweep their loss, nor could they comprehend what had befallen their son and what of ill-lot had descended upon him from Heaven. Arabian nights. English
  • Pluto is conjunct the Midheaven from the ninth house, along with Mercury, which is still retrograde, and in the tenth house.
  • The good professor's recent "there's no heaven" moment of "Imagine"-esque aplomb is what it is. Christopher Cocca: Heaven, Hell And Stephen Hawking
  • Heaven helps those who help themselves. 
  • John can dally with a host of other women but never find in them the revelation of heavenly glory that he beholds after the most awkward kiss with the scholarly Lucy.
  • Now the first bolt of lightning stabs the earth. It is heaven's exclamation point 3.
  • Will my spirit fly upward to a happy heaven? or shall I sink into the bottomless pit, an outcast from a God of infinite love? American Indian Stories
  • And one would expect, therefore, that a progressive and systematically thoughtful government would move heaven and earth to rescue the nation from the carnage which AIDS is taking, and unhappily, that is not the case, although in every other country in southern Africa I have visited, they are moving heaven and earth to turn things around. CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2006
  • He's my chief o 'staff ... and just guess - "he poked me in the chest" - who I've been moving heaven and earth to have as my intelligence bimbashi! Watershed
  • Book 1, 31, line 13, 'Dis carus ipsis' — 'dear to heaven'. Letter 178
  • Michael may not have been present in the flesh, but in between hallelujahs, one woman proclaimed, "He's dancing in Heaven, he's dancing in Heaven! Lauri Lyons: Harlem Memorializes Michael Jackson at Apollo Theater
  • The final stage of our journey along the Lower Zambesi was sheer heaven.
  • Through the symbolism of the heavens the astrologer aims to gain a deeper spiritual knowledge of earthly matters, and seeks to understand the wider significance of the situations that trouble us.
  • After the organization of a new heaven and a new earth it was taught that upon the latter would descend a beautiful city, with pearly gates and golden streets, called the City of God, the Kingdom of God, the Astral Worship
  • He has Heaven knows how many wives.
  • The dying old man cast up his eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly.
  • He believed that he and his wife would one day be together again in heaven.
  • `Oh, for heaven's sake, can't you just toddle off somewhere? A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
  • I grandthinked after his obras after another time about the itch in his egondoom he was legging boldylugged from some pulversporochs and lyoking for a stool-eazy for to nemesisplotsch allafranka and for to salubrate himself with an ultradungs heavenly mass at his base by a suprime pomp-ship chorams the perished popes, the reverend and allaverred cromlecks, and when I heard his lewdbrogue reciping his cheap cheateary gospeds to sintry and santry and sentry and suntry I thought he was only haftara having afterhis brokeforths but be the homely Churopodvas I no sooner seen aghist of his frighte-ousness then I was bibbering with vear a few versets off fooling for fjorg for my fifth foot. Finnegans Wake
  • At all events he recognizes the possibility of conscious receptivity in disembodied spirits. caught up -- (Ac 8: 39). to the third heaven -- even to, &c. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The click of a persimmon driver striking one of those soft balata balls and the sound of steel spikes clattering across the parking lot were heavenly.
  • And so the hours of night passed, and the heavens turned slowly about the rutilant earth. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
  • For an understanding of the role which the idea of revolution has played in the language of politics it is important to keep in mind that the meaning of the term reaches from simply designating a change in government to the belief in a heaven-determined, cyclical, political development. REVOLUTION
  • Dad's Army told us that in Britain, thank heaven, nothing worked like clockwork.
  • This imperative is followed by an indicative: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
  • The physical refutation of the self-existence of the universe is completed by the discovery, _that all the orbs of heaven, as well as the earth, are in motion, and that an orderly and regulated motion_. [ Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
  • Shortly before the final the heavens opened. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fortunately their heady, heavenly aroma more than compensates for their physical unattractiveness. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's not much about ID in lotus land, but there's a Conservative Christian Bible belt which professes "God created the heavens and the earth" and the two apparently go hand in hand. The Memory Hole
  • They rank neither with mortals nor with immortals: long indeed do they live, eating heavenly food and treading the lovely dance among the immortals, and with them the Sileni and the sharp-eyed Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • It tries to gain advantages before God and obtain righteousness through a supposedly better life with more divine occupations and more heavenly thoughts.
  • Is it time for us in the Church to say that splitting atoms is unholy work, work that even ‘at its best’ is inherently incapable of giving glory to the God who made heaven and earth?
  • Trusting in her intercession with Christ, who whereas He is the "one mediator of God and men" (1 Timothy ii, 5), chose to make His Mother the advocate of sinners, and the minister and mediatress of grace, as an earnest of heavenly gifts and as a token of Our paternal affection we most lovingly impart the Apostolic Blessing to you, Venerable Brethren, and to all the flock committed to your care. Latest Articles
  • You weren't looking for another mother -- heaven forfend, as Hub used to say. PROSPECT HILL
  • The prevalence of infi - delity, immorality and vice as surely indicates ap - proaching calamities, as clouds indicate a shower, winds forebode a storm, or the conjunction, or op - position of the sun and moon, in certain places in the heavens, presignifying an eclipse. Sermons delivered on various occasions : first published singly, now republished and collected into a volume, with two new one, never before printed
  • To be so rhythmic while a rhymester - may heaven forfend!
  • But perhaps this scants heaven in favor of earth.
  • I was an eleven-year-old, wide-eyed gremmie and being at the event was like being in surf puppy heaven. Transworld Surf» | Transworld Surf
  • For heaven's sake!" Dot expostulated. "They're cheap and they're useful.".
  • The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.
  • In chantries unrehearsed we'd wow the votarists and serenade the friary to panting ecstasies while summoned to kingly chambers we branked the troubadours, turning the sovereign mind to heaven, the courtiers left speechless with neglect... Strange Bedfellows
  • Heaven bliss the owld gintleman -- he had a habit of stopping in the middle of an exciting part and lighting his dudheen, and then when he'd begin again, he'd skip over a part on purpose to make us ax him a question ---- Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys
  • I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. Mark Twain 
  • Firstly, we analyse the relationship of the usage of Chenwei with opinions on legitimism, the mandate of heaven and the predestination.
  • True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
  • If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered. 
  • A line of skiers stretches forever as they herringbone toward the heavens.
  • Then Dave Boone and Wally made a stand that roused the perspiring spectators to something like enthusiasm, for Mr. Boone was a mighty "slogger," and Wally had a neat and graceful style that sent the Cunjee supporters into the seventh heaven. Mates at Billabong
  • It's hard to resist the lucious, velvety chocolate cascading down in a stream of utter blissful heaven.
  • It is hard not to see the movement from heavenliness and holy place to tolchocking on the rot as a kind of decline, not progress. Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses
  • Each secondary school is leasing two new bicycles, fully kitted out with lighting and panniers strong enough to carry schoolbooks, from Cycle Heaven in York.
  • His model was the epicycle-deferent model where the motion of the heavenly bodies was circular, but based on a number of circles whose centres travelled around circles.
  • To be sure the back-seats were free for the poor; but the emblazoned crimson of the windows, the carving of the arches, the very purity of the preacher's style, said plainly that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a man in a red wamus to enter the kingdom of heaven through that gate. Margret Howth, a Story of To-day
  • She believes in God and heaven and hell and the rest.
  • I never had anyone who paid attention, except for the angel that's watching over me from heaven.
  • If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered. 
  • The birds would no longer flute to us of lost loves, but of found worms; we should realise how terribly selfish they are; we could never more quote 'Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings,' or poetise with Mr. Patmore of 'the heavenly-minded thrush.' Prose Fancies
  • Long are the "times" of Heaven: the orbits of angel messengers seem wide to mortal vision; they may enring ages: the cycle of one departure and return may clasp unnumbered generations; and dust, kindling to brief suffering life, and through pain, passing back to dust, may meanwhile perish out of memory again, and yet again. Villette
  • Being engrossed and motionless, she indicated that she saw these souls ascending to heaven.
  • Indeed, little was known of those orbs until within the past hundred years, when the exploration of the heavens by the aid of greatly increased telescopic power, was the means of creating a new branch of astronomical science, called sidereal astronomy. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
  • Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
  • To an uninstructed observer, the apparent motion of the heavenly bodies round the Earth would naturally lead him to conclude that, of the two theories, the Ptolemaic was the correct one. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
  • Emerging from the skylight, I turn and walk right into a pearlescent heaven of snowbells (what a thoughtfully beautiful and observant name, like all the old names) and their perfume.
  • A new heaven and a new earth will replace the world as we know it today.
  • These three laws of motion are general, applying just as accurately to the behaviour of balls on a billiard table as to the motion of the heavenly bodies.
  • The city of Banares is in effect just a big church, a religious hive whose every conceivable earthly and heavenly good is procurable under one roof.
  • To the left, Zephyr and Chloris blow life into her, helping her to incarnate while moving from heaven to earth. The Poet Prince
  • Who wants to listen to ‘Stairway to Heaven’ for that silly hippies-in-Stonehenge twaddle about bustling hedgerows?
  • 'Heavens! said she, peevishly,' is this the gallant, polite Frenchman! The Castle of Wolfenbach
  • Hail him for the success, castigate him for his failures but, for heaven's sake, do not bring religion into sport.
  • Jesus told a parable of how the kingdom of heaven is.
  • For similar reasons, most people, especially most who believe in Heaven, also consider Heaven, or whatever, as a special kind of supernal real estate, as Owen Gingerich, author of the foreword to a recent English edition of Johannes Kepler's LaRouche's Latest
  • He was persuaded that disunity in the church was displeasing to heaven and bad for the empire's success and prosperity.
  • Baronet, kneeling in a square beard opposite his wife in a ruff: a very fat lady, the Dame Rebecca Clavering, in alto-relievo, is borne up to Heaven by two little blue-veined angels, who seem to have a severe task — and so forth. The History of Pendennis
  • Not that I'd really have grudged him a snack, you understand, but I'm rather fond of the little baby frogs and heaven knows they have enough trouble making it into adulthood as it is.
  • Does he mind, for example, being called, as he has, a 'bearded scenester' or even - heaven forbid - a hipster? Times, Sunday Times
  • To say that such admonitions are a means to preserve those from apostasy who are by other means (as suppose the absolute decree of God, or the interposal of his irresistible power for their perseverance, or the like) in no possibility of apostatizing, is to say that washing is a means to make snow white, or the rearing up of a pillar in the air a means to keep the heavens from falling. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
  • For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
  • Oh stop whinging, for heaven's sake!
  • Between heaven and earth there is a thing called snow, drop from the clouds, the ground; the friend is a man who is you, know in the accident, stop at the permanent.
  • Fine, delicate black lines delineate androgynous figures, heads turned heavenward, mouths open.
  • `Oh, for heaven's sake, can't you just toddle off somewhere? A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
  • My guess is this: Heaven forbid that you have a cancer right now.
  • If my father blessed me with the dew of heaven, he blessed thee with the fatness of the earth, and if he spoke to me, Peoples will serve thee, he hath said unto thee, By thy sword shalt thou live. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
  • With this new danger menacing him, the young cragsman lay flat down on the rock, and remained motionless, while he offered up an earnest prayer to Heaven that the bird might not discover him. Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly
  • The Scoop: Almost 30 years after the first fantasy film, Perseus, mortal son of Greek god Zeus, is back to take on Medusa and the Kraken to stop their evil from spreading to earth and the heavens.
  • There was no sporting reference in that primitive debutant issue of 25 October 1961 – six corny homemade pages printed on yellow paper – but over the following half-century the magazine has significantly cast its wittily baleful eye over the prolix and self-important pomposities of modern professional sport and thank heaven for it. Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating
  • Then God sent down on him and on the stubborn unbelievers with him a thunderblast from the heavens of His power, which destroyed them all with a mighty clamour, and neither he nor any of his company set eyes on the city. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
  • There are many (questionless) canonized on earth, that shall never be saints in heaven; and have their names in histories and martyrologies, who, in the eyes of God, are not so perfect martyrs as was that wise heathen Socrates, that suffered on a fundamental point of religion, — the unity of God. Religio Medici
  • Hesper, moveth in heaven a light more tyrannous ever? Poems and Fragments
  • Just as I helped R. into the stylist's chair the heavens opened up and sheets of rain descended with liquid force, splattering the windows and instantly flooding the parking lot.
  • In carpenter's heaven, all surfaces would be flat and straight, all vertical elements would be plumb and horizontal ones level, and all corners would be exact right angles.
  • With the accomplishment of that grand end, said he, "our voices will ascend to Heaven over a country re-united, over a people disinthralled, and God will bless us. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
  • I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. Isaac Newton 
  • He had delivered unto them the keys of the kingdom of heaven, promising them that whatsoever they bound on earth should be bound in heaven; whatsoever they loosed upon earth should be loosed in heaven; whosesoever sins they should remit should be remitted, and whosesoever sins they should retain should be retained.
  • For heaven's sake let's keep to the point or we'll never reach any decisions.
  • What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. Chuck Palahniuk 
  • This guy, and the idiot army who champion his every move as it’s mana from the heavens, deserve to fail. Matthew Yglesias » Institutions Matter
  • Specially not a heavenly pascha with such bloodstained hands as the biblical one. Evolution and Liberal Christianity
  • Someone has cannily spotted this unquenched desire, and decided that the best solution would be to create Girl Heaven, a fairytale palace stacked to the rafters with pink and shiny trinkets.
  • Above float an airborne cast of Gods and Goddesses, heavenly nymphs and tree spirits, and snake-hooded nagas and naginis.
  • Then I take the casserole out of the oven and place over the vegetables some fish, any white-fleshed fish such as blue grenadier or trevally or rock ling, along with a generous pat of butter and some fresh ground black pepper, and put it back in the oven and a most heavenly dinner is ready in ten minutes, depending on the thickness of the fish. What I cooked last night.
  • the soul in its heavenward flight
  • But the secret and symbolical hint was the harmonical nature of the soul; which, delivered from the body, went again to enjoy the primitive harmony of heaven, from whence it first descended; which, according to its progress traced by antiquity, came down by Cancer, and ascended by Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
  • “Hear, King Moloch!” called Hasdrubal, lifting his swarthy arms to heaven, then striking them with his sword till the blood gushed down, “suffer us to escape this calamity and I vow thee even my daughter Tibaït, — a child in her tenth year, — she shall die in thy holy furnace a sacrifice.” A Victor of Salamis
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  • Moreover, in whiteness are many excellences; for instance, the snow falleth white from heaven, and it is traditional-that the beautifullest of a colours white. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Dear heaven, Laura thought, trotting after him with her string bag and her blanket.
  • For we know that if the earthly frame that houses us today should be demolished, we possess a building which God has provided - a house not made of human hands, eternal, and in heaven.
  • Occasionally, for my benefit, she would recall sanctimonious preachers who would dismiss three quarters of the world's people as ignorant heathens doomed to spend the afterlife in eternal damnation ¾ and who in the next breath would insist that the earth and the heavens had been created in seven days, all geologic and astrophysical evidence to the contrary. Greg Barrett: Obama's speech bridges the Abrahamic faiths
  • For our possessions are in heaven; therefore, sons of men, purchase unto yourselves by these transitory things which are not yours, _what is yours_, and shall not pass away. Cosmic Consciousness
  • Blake's views on psychic reintegration, heaven and hell, and the transformative power of verse fascinated him.
  • A moment in heaven is infinitely pleasurable, so even if heaven lasts no longer than that, that moment outweighs a lifetime of Epicurean pleasures.
  • The evidences for astrologic demonology in ancient Israel, when the nation was affected by Hellenism and Babylonian decadence, are found in the latter part of the "Book of the Secrets of Henoch" -- the "Book of the Course of the Lights of Heaven" -- as also previously in the fourth section which treats of Henoch's wanderings "through the secret the places of the world". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • And he that appeals to Heaven must be sure he has right on his side, and a right, too, that is worth the trouble and cost of the appeal, as he will answer at a tribunal that cannot be deceived, and will be sure to retribute to every one according to the mischiefs he hath created to his fellow-subjects — that is, any part of mankind. Two Treatises of Government: of Civil Government Book II
  • The word “angel,” of course, is the generic name for all members of the heavenly host, as well as the name assigned to the lowest rank in the descending scale of spiritual creatures. The Angels and Us
  • Now, Christ in his superangelic state in heaven was not involved in sin or in its doom of death and subterranean banishment. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
  • Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
  • To be disapproved, that is, when the word condemns them, either as touching the faith or the holiness of the gospel; the which they must needs be, that are void of spiritual and heavenly judgment in the mysteries of the kingdom; Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
  • Rome teaches, that is, purificatory and punitive), but probatory, not restricted to those dying in "venial sin"; the supposed intermediate class between those entering heaven at once, and those dying in mortal sin who go to hell, but universal, testing the godly and ungodly alike Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • for Christ's, God's, goodness', heaven's, pity's, etc. sake used to emphasize that it is important to do sth or when you are annoyed about sth: Do be careful, for goodness' sake.
  • Then the heavens ripped asunder and showered evil and ill omens upon the face of this beckoning planet.
  • And correspondent Wyatt Cenac reported live from Heaven on which Republican was the odds-on favorite to receive the "coveted God endorsement. Cheers & Jeers: Jon Stewart in 2012
  • The motions of the heavenly bodies are eccentric and intervolved, yet are most regular when they seem most lawless. Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker
  • The next of the fixed stars and the brightest in all the heavens is that which we call _Sirius_ or the Dog Star. Marvels of Modern Science
  • A bolt of lightning descended from the heavens in a blinding flash of yellow light accompanied by the rumble seconds later.
  • Only the worshippers of Buddha now behold the gleam of the Oriental Sun on the golden roofs of the lamasery; the great caravans from the city of the Dalai Lama pass through the border town with no one to tell the pilgrims of the "Heavenly Ruler. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
  • It was winter sports, for heaven's sake, not an in-depth seminar on personal relationships!
  • People are unexcited about what they imagine heaven could be like.
  • They had a parting that Lemuel's mother would have called sickish without question; but it all seemed heavenly sweet and right. The Minister's Charge
  • And heaven forbid we should think of our own interests in abundant supply instead of coddling the precious young lawyers! Matthew Yglesias » Too Many Lawyers, But Also Too Many Cartels
  • I am immensely impressed by the way in which the British juryman and jurywoman simply sits down to do this disagreeable duty though the heavens fall.
  • The heaven is but one remove from the hell, love stands between them.
  • _Corona Australis_ was blazing with unwonted brilliancy, and, it seemed to him, the constellation was making signs to him from its signal station in the heavens. The Wedge of Gold
  • In the night came "a terrible tempest," which scattered the duke's ships "one from another, so that two of them were not in compagnie together in one place;" and when the tempest had done its work, it passed away; and the gales were fair, and the heaven was clear, when, the next day, the earl "halsed up the sayles," and came in sight of Dartmouth. The Last of the Barons — Volume 10
  • At the other end of the ‘globus intellectualis,’ nearest, not to earth and sense, but to heaven and God, is the personality of man, by which he holds communion with the unseen world. Theaetetus
  • We celebrate because through Jesus Christ we gain access to not just heaven, but to a purposeful and meaningful relationship with Almighty God.
  • Who in the heavens could match his pecs, his flawless jawline, his crystalline gaze?
  • The last boxcar was the railroad guards' heaven on wheels.
  • And I was so spoiled that I had a very, let's say, ‘heavenly’ idea of the world.
  • Oh heavens above how dare they create a parallel in a satire between real life and their fictional world!
  • The Cheshire cat's wide, puckish smile descending from the heavens as a crescent moon; the caterpillar puffing opiate smoke into the face of Alice and snobbishly asking, Who ... Archive 2009-10-01
  • And although the English will no lesse disdaine, than any Nation under heaven can doe, to be beaten upon their owne ground or elsewhere by a forraigne enemie; yet to entertaine those that shall assaile us, with their owne beefe in their bellies, and before they eate of our Kentish Capons, I take to be the wisest way. Operation Sea Lion
  • `A bag,' she repeated louder and looked heavenward as the hoovering black hole launched a packet of Lambert & Butler. THE MANANA MAN
  • Their heavenly guardians had come to save them, and Mama too, more than likely. EVERVILLE
  • God hath placed Him in the midst of His throne as a Lamb, as it had been slain, and it is thus that the hosts of heaven adore Him.
  • Dan'l tel de king dat his kingdum wuz gwine ter be taken frum him, 'caus' he had not feared de Gord uv heaven, an 'in his folly an' crimes he turned away frum dat Gord dat rules in de heaven an 'hols de nashuns uv de earth in de pams uv His han's. John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher

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