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“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“The Book of Mormon is no fake. I know what I know. I have seen what I have seen and I have heard what I have heard. I have seen the gold plates from which the Book of Mormon is written. An angel appeared to me and others and testified to the truthfulness of the record, and had I been willing to have perjured myself and sworn falsely to the testimony I now bear I could have been a rich man, but I could not have testified other than I have done and am now doing for these things are true.”

Knows Men Has Beens Book Done Rich Records Written Heard Willing Bears Angel Gold Fake Plates Testimony Could Have Been Truthfulness Rich Man

Author:Martin Harris

“What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.”

Men Love Wells Eye Values Pay Angel Gold Sake Rings Bread Worth It One Love Lure Touchstones Bread And Butter

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet finds his models in his laurel coppice. But the Duende, on the other hand, must come to life in the nethermost recesses of the blood.”

Giving Hands Light Form Blood Poet Approach Models Angel Gold Shed Muse Leafs Folds Laurels Recess

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“They’re going to ask what you said. And if I tell Mr. Twindell you said heaven will be like this, he’ll be very disappointed. He’s counting, you know, on gold streets and angels and horses with wings.” “I see where that could be a problem,” Ian agreed, and he tenderly laid his hand against his son’s cheek. “In that case, you can tell him I said this is almost heaven.”

Ifs Knows Said Problem Hands Asks Heaven Cases Streets Son Angel Gold Horse Wings Disappointed Cheeks Counting

Author:Judith McNaught

“There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.”

“The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from heaven. Our nature attracted Him rather than the nature of angels. Our misery caused Him to stoop to our lowness. Even our sins had a sort of attraction for the abundance of His mercy and the predilection of His grace. Our repentance wins Him to us. Our love makes earth a paradise to Him; and our souls lure Him as gold lures the miser, with irresistible fascination”

Source: The blessed sacrament: or, The works and ways of God

“And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined linen, and the precious clothing, and the harlots, are the desires of this great and abominable church.”

Desire Church Fine Angel Gold Silver Catholicism Clothings Silk Linen Harlots

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.”

Should Sleep Poor Rich Angel Gold Fairy Palaces

Author:Rose Fyleman

“For in that universal call, Few bankers will to heaven be mounters; They'll cry, "Ye shops, upon us fall! Conceal and cover us, ye counters! When other hands the scales shall hold, And they, in men's and angels' sight Produced with all their bills and gold, 'Weigh'd in the balance and found light!'”

Men Hands Light Fall Found Heaven Cry Balance Angel Gold Universal Sight Bills Scales Shops Bankers

Book:Historical tracts. Political poetry. Poems chiefly relating to Irish politics

Source: Historical tracts. Political poetry. Poems chiefly relating to Irish politics