Best heaven & shining Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author

“If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.”

Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…

“Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!”

May Children Eye Heaven Stars Brain Weight Shining Size Smoke

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

“I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.”

Should Earth Strong Heaven Secret Sea Lovers Embrace Shining Depth Breasts Manifest Shade Weary Find Me Folds Shields Luminous Sleepy Secret Places Strong Love

Author:Adam Lindsay Gordon

“I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.”

Source: Poems and ballads ... Containing the Ballad of babe Christabel ... Revised and corrected by the author

“It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.”

Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

“Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.”

Needs Light Heaven Pure Shining Oil Spots Candle Lamps Stains

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us in his word To seek him rather where his mercy shines.”

Men Should Humans God Heaven Mercy Shining Scales Command Stride Wondrous Human Wisdom

Book:The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

“Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.”

Men Way Turns Father Heaven Dark Known Shining Guides Wit Scripture Phrases Glorify Lanterns Father In Heaven

Book:The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

“The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.”

May Earth Heaven Sun Shining Plenty Comparison Barren

Book:The Poetical Works, of John Milton: With a Memoir and Seven Embellishments

Source: The Poetical Works, of John Milton: With a Memoir and Seven Embellishments

“True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.”

Eye Heaven Goodness Shining Worms Glow Worms

Book:Guesses at Truth

Source: Guesses at Truth

“Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.”

Soul Earth Joy Heaven Darkness Sun Sorrow Blessed Shining Glad Rays Fatigue Cheerfulness Shining Through

Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life

Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life