#heaven

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#cities #fills #heaven #itself #kingdoms

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#differ #earth #heaven #hell #men

The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#clubs #gay #having #heaven #late

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#better #god #heaven #helping #how

He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#fleeting #fright #heaven #life-and-living #love

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. ↗

— Peter Tosh

#everybody #go #heaven #nobody #wants

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#best #fact #heaven #his #in fact

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography. ↗

— George Phillips Bond

#astronomy #been #bodies #celestial #century

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven. ↗

— George William Russell

#found #heaven #seek #you

Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher. ↗

— Nancy Holmes

#dangerous #gifts #heavenly #poetry-in-disguise #rebel