Best heaven & wings Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.”

Said Light Seems Heaven Support Bears Creatures Bird Shadow Blessed Wings Burden Flight Carrie Resemblance Redeemer

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.”

Littles Soul Given Heaven Wealth Grief Bears Wings Little Things Small Things Trifles Unrest

Book:Poems ... Second edition

Source: Poems ... Second edition

“God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.”

Giving Littles Heaven Wings Rounds Deeds Spread

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

“Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.”

Men Light Spirit Dies Heaven Sky Angel Wings Rounds Lips Serpent True Or False Venomous

Book:Legends and lyrics: a book of verses

Source: Legends and lyrics: a book of verses

“Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.”

Eye Night Evil Heaven Black White Messages Wings East Glad Snow Dove Ravens Snow White

Book:The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!”

Soul Heaven Sun Wings Flying Dust Soar Crawling

Book:Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic

Source: Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic

“Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one.”

Men Earth Together Heaven Taught Stones Infinite Wings Charity Brilliant Burning Contemplation Ladders Jacob Transcending

Author:Juan Donoso Cortes

“To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.”

Heaven Clear Praying Wings Clouds Eagles Above The Clouds

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727

“Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing!”

Earth Fighting Heaven Let Me Wings Clouds Singers Rings Lifts Bells Soar Above The Clouds

Author:Edmund Clarence Stedman

“The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.”

Soul Heaven Path Cutting Pure Glory Wings Native Pure Soul

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.”

Joy Given Heaven Sun Path Feet Dying Safety Wings Climbs Lamps Stairs Great Joy

Book:The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella

Source: The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella

“None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.”

Heaven Clear Wings Gates Waking Larks

Book:John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work

Source: John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work

“Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track. The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back.”

Love Heaven Bears Wings Track Thee Bores Soar Trust Love

Author:Richard B. Garnett

“I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the second, but that first attained, we are encouraged to take another, and so at the last There is a real service of Christ in the distribution of the gospel in its printed form, a service the result of which heaven alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone discover. How many thousands have been carried to heaven instrumentally upon the wings of these tracts, none can tell”

Giving Firsts Looks Has Beens Real Done Might Action Lasts Form Heaven Christ Religious Results Steps Judgment Wings Deeds Look Up First Steps Distribution Printed Judgment Day Deeds Done

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.”

Men Giving Mind Heaven Wings Soar

Book:The Birds

Source: The Birds

“My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies.”

Soul Heaven Mystery Sky Wings Spread Volume Almighty

Book:Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635

Source: Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635

“Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are.”

Men Together Joy Heaven Fire Magic Sweet Brother Beats Daughter Wings Spread Drunk Immortal Customs Sparks Goddess Advancing Afar Shrines Elysium

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.”

Two Heaven Differences Party Republican Remains Wings Property Democratic Democrat Sake Ownership

Author:Gore Vidal

“As it is not possible to walk without feet or fly without wings, so it is impossible to attain the Kingdom of Heaven without the fulfillment of the commandments.”

Inspirational Christian Heaven Religious Walks Impossible Feet Wings Kingdoms Fulfillment Orthodox Commandments Kingdom Of Heaven

Author:Theophan the Recluse

“Possibilities are like the wings of birds; they allow man to soar and to climb to the heavens. And facts are like the atmosphere against which those wings must beat, and without which the soaring bird will surely plummet back to earth.”

Men Facts Earth Heaven Possibility Beats Bird Wings Atmosphere Climbs Soar

Author:Ivan Pavlov

“We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.”

Ifs World Way Able Heaven Air Sea Bears Limits Sight Wings Fishes Our World Summit Sluggish

Author:Plato

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