Best heaven & race Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.”

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Author:N. T. Wright

“I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.”

Ifs World Mind Soul Reason Heaven Felt Space Race Brain Silence Knowing Heard Strange Ears Down And Boxes Finished My Soul Broke Lifts Funeral Boots Bells Solitary Numb Plunge Tolls Treading

Author:Andrew Solomon

“We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just make enough money to-to- !" Jesus said: "Sell what ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth."”

People Ifs Giving Said Enough Jesus Heaven Race Materials Increase Mad Sells Treasure Bags Thieves Consumerism Overconsumption Moths Alms

Author:Eugenia Price

“Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed from a spiritual origin, that is, from the marriage of good and truth; and since, in addition, the Lord's divine proceeding principally flows into conjugal love--are most holy in the estimation of the angels.”

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Author:Emanuel Swedenborg

“Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles to be fought, sacrifices to be made, an Egypt to be forsaken, a wilderness to be passed through, a cross to be carried, a race to be run. Conversion is not putting a person in an arm-chair and taking them easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.”

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Author:J. C. Ryle

“The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire...Here is the bible position of woman briefly summed up.”

Source: The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

“The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours.”

Ifs Doe Light Would Be Used Choices Heaven Stars Race Darkness Planets Destruction Astronomy Scales Significance Funeral Cosmic Lit Observers Extinction Mourn Beacons Andromeda Nebula

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.”

“Straight is the way to Acheron, Whether the spirit's race is run From Athens or from Meroe: Weep not, far from home to die; The wind doth blow in every sky That wafts us to that doleful sea.”

Way Home Running Spirit Dies Heaven Race Sea Sky Wind Blow Athens Doleful

Book:Miscellanies

Source: Miscellanies

“The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.”

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Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.”

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Book:Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground: The Poetry of F.R. Scott

Source: Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground: The Poetry of F.R. Scott

“Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.”

Humans Heaven Women Race Grace Human Race Peculiar

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or sickness (from which none are exempt,) overtakes you, or for the distressed of your race, what a heaven of happiness you would have created on earth: ye would now be an ornament to your sex, and ages to come would call you blessed. But it is in vain to try - a priest-ridden female is lost to reason. Why? because she has surrendered her reason to the ... missionaries ... the orthodox; they are the grand deceivers.”

“In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.”

Ifs World Firsts Has Beens Said Light Faces Heaven Work Race Air Cost Labor Good Things Bread Enjoyed Labour Sweat Almighty

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

“Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of the race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.”

Source: History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900

“Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!”

Humans Heaven Race Progress Ears Foolish Human Race

Author:Theophile Gautier

“(Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.”

“...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.”

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.”

Heaven Race Deserve Assuming Warrants

Author:David Platt

“The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether Priests and Kings shall rule it by fictitious Miracles? Or, in other words, whether authority is originally in the People? Or whether it has descended for 1800 Years in a succession of Popes and Bishops, or brought down from Heaven by the Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove, in a Phial of holy Oil?”

Source: The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams

“Planetary democracy does not yet exist but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it. It is the very Earth we inhabit linked with Heaven above us. Only in this setting can the mutuality and the commonality of the human race be newly created with reverence and gratitude for that which transcends each of us and all of us together.”

Humans Doe Earth Together Heaven Race Democracy Gratitude Civilization Setting Settings Human Race Reverence Preparing Linked Commonality

Author:Vaclav Havel

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