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Now he [Nebridius] lives in Abraham's bosom.
[Lat., Nunc ille vivit in sinu Abraham.]
Author: Saint Aurelius Augustine
Source: Confessions (bk. IX, 3)
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There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at
rest.
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. III, v. 17)
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In my Father's house are many mansion: if it were not so, I
would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Author: Bible
Source: John (ch. XIV, v. 2)
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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor
steal:
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. VI, v. 19-21)
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A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a
doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of
wickedness.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. LXXXIV, v. 10)
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Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;
But is there anything Beyond?
Author: Rupert Brooke
Source: Heaven
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Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
What this tumultuous body now denies;
And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.
Author: Rupert Brooke
Source: New Numbers
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God keeps a niche
In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit
He brake them to our faces, and denied
That our close kisses should impair their white,--
I know we shall behold them raised, complete,
The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,
New Memnons singing in the great God-light.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Sonnet--Futurity with the Departed
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Andrea del Sarto (l. 97)
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All places are distant from heaven alike.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. III, Memb. 4)
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In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto I, st. 20)
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To appreciate heaven well
'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
Author: Will Carleton
Source: Farm Ballads--Gone with a Handsomer Man
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The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
Author: Jeremy Collier
Source: Ecclesiastical History (IV, 241), (ed. 1852)
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Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius,
Author: Confucius
Source: quoted by Frederic William Farrar in "Sermons--Eternal Hopes--What Heaven Is", last line
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Where tempests never beat nor billows roar.
Author: William Cowper
Source: On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture
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And so upon this wise I prayed,--
Great Spirit, give to me
A heaven not so large as yours
But large enough for me.
Author: Emily Dickinson
Source: A Prayer
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Since Heaven's eternal year is thine.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew (l. 15)
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Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven,
Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.
Author: John Dryden
Source: The Spanish Friar (act V, sc. 2)
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'Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in hell
And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell.
On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest,
And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed.
Author: Catherine M. Fanshawe
Source: Enigma (The letter H)
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Where billows never break, not tempests roar.
Author: Sir Samuel Garth
Source: Dispensary (canto III, l. 226)
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While resignation gently slopes the way;
And, all his prospects brightening to the last,
His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 110)
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They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay
away from the coronation.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Enigmas of Life
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Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy!
Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;
Dreams cannot picture a world so fair--
Sorrow and death may not enter there;
Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom,
For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb,
It is there, it is there, my child!
Author: Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
Source: The Better Land
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All this, and Heaven too!
Author: Philip Henry
Source: Mathew Henry's Life Philip Henry (p. 70)
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Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. VIII, l. 128), (Pope's translation)
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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.
Author: Bible
Source: None
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
Author: James Joyce
Source: None
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Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Author: C. S. Lewis
Source: None
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Author: Robert Browning
Source: None
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Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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