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“The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.”

Humans Heart Soul Feelings Light Heaven Path Mankind Tiny Flames Human Heart Torches Light Up Blazing

Author:Khalil Gibran

“The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present capacity, and been faithful with all things He puts into our possession. We are created, we are born for the express purpose of growing up from the low estate of manhood, to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven. That is the truth about it, just as it is. The Lord has organized mankind for the express purpose of increasing in that intelligence and truth, which is with God, until he is capable of creating worlds on worlds, and becoming Gods, even the sons of God”

Source: The Essential Brigham Young

“Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.”

Heaven Liberty Mankind Blessing Valuable

Book:The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha

Source: The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha

“That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.”

Should Firsts Heart Persons Doe Earth Heaven Felt Imagination Christianity Mankind Serious Relation Doctrine Incarnation Serious Person

Author:James Anthony Froude

“The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.”

Earth Heaven Mankind Holy Rain Woods Wounds Fallen Yearning Herds Flocks Rite Wedlock Amorous Demeter

Book:Aeschylus

Source: Aeschylus

“The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind, are transported from one part of the heavens to another by virtue of the general laws of motion.”

Law Heaven Virtue Atheism Mankind Movement Ordinary Regard Misery Positive Atheism Comets Laws Of Motion

Author:Pierre Bayle

“On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!”

Earth Heaven Hell Atheism Mankind Positive Atheism Opening Mortals Gates Jealous Expanding Gloomy Discord Nineteen Inexorable Tithe Leviathan

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry

“Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.”

Heaven Grace Mankind Mercy Attributes Darling Boundless Grace And Mercy

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations

“It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.”

Men Heaven Clear Mankind Conscience Noble Ancestry

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.”

Has Beens Might Left Heaven Women Hell Mankind Fool Devil Tools Adam Threatened Torment

Author:George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne