Heavens Quotes
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Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak: and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon thetender herb, and as the showers upon the grass.
Bible (Old Testament)— Deuteronomy 32:1-2.
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting uponhim: And loavoicefromheaven, saying,This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew 3:16-17.
Ptolemy... against the champions of this or that cosmology of the heavens... had dared to claim that it is legitimate to interpret the facts of astronomy by the simplest geometrical scheme which will 'save the phenomena,' no matter whose metaphysics might be upset. His conception of the physical structure of the earth, however, prevented him from carrying through in earnest this principle of relativity, as his objections to the hypothesis that the earth moves amply show.
ptolemy— Edwin Arthur Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science (1924)
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the L shall have them in derision.
Bible (Old Testament)— ORDPsalms 2:4.
Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens — great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently — but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best.
joseph mccabe— The Story of Religious Controversy (1929), p. 86
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
ramakrishna— Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960, pg. 1)
A fanciful and flowery and heated imagination beware of; because the things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out. Thy mind, O man! if thou wilt lead a soul unto salvation, must stretch as high as the utmost heavens, and search into and contemplate the darkest abyss, and the broad expanse of eternity thou must commune with God.
— Joseph Fielding Smith (editor), Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 137
There's some ill planet reigns; I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favorable.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act II, scene 1, line 105.
When he says that in that day all his thoughts perish, or flow away, perhaps under this expression he censures the madness of princes in setting no bounds to their hopes and desires, and scaling the very heavens in their ambition, like the insane Alexander of Macedon, who, upon hearing that there were other worlds, wept that he had not yet conquered one, although soon after the funeral urn sufficed him.
— John Calvin, in his interpretation of Psalm 146 in On The Book Of Psalms (1557) as translated by Rev. James Anderson (1849)
Who hath created seven heavens in harmony. Thou (Muhammad) canst see no fault in the Beneficent One's creation; then look again: Canst thou see any rifts? Marmaduke Pickthall
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— The Qur'an (?), Sura 67:3
My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.
Arthur Christiansen— 1961Headlines all my Life, ch.19.
This is the day, which down the void abysm At the Earth-born’s spell yawns for Heaven’s despotism And Conquest is dragged captive through the deep: Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep, And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Demogorgon, Act IV, l. 554–561.
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Bible (Old Testament)— Isaiah 65:17.
Hast thou not seen how that whatsoever is in the heavens and in the earth extols God, and the birds spreading their wings? EachHe knows its prayer and its extolling.
The Koran— Sura 24, l.41.
I know of people who secretly think about themselves: "God must be really happy that I still believe in Him at all." Good heavens! That's not enough!
wilhelm busch— "What's the use of walking with God? Walking with God is no illusion" p.209
And also to the alien, who is not of Thy people Israel, but comes from a distant land on account of Thy fame; for hearing of Thy great name and Thy strong hand, and Thine outstretched arm, he comes to this house to pray... do Thou listen in the heavens, the place where Thou dwellest, and perform all that the alien begs of Thee, so that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thine own people Israel, and to know that Thy name is proclaimed over this house that I have built.
solomon— I Kings 8:41-43 on the dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem
Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
william wordsworth— Stanza 6. (Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (1798))
The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.
joseph addison— No. 465, Ode (23 August 1712).Also in The Polite Arts (1749), Chap. XXI. "Of Lyrick Poetry."
Nothing is so beautiful as Spring When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
gerard manley hopkins— Spring, stanza 1
No rising star in the political firmament ever shone more brightly than Oswald Mosley, none promised more surely to soar to the heavens – and none fell to earth with so deadening a thud. Never were such rich talents so wretchedly squandered. Never did success turn to failure so inscrutably.
oswald mosley— Michael Foot, Mosley: the rise and fall of a would-be Caesar, Evening Standard, 22 October 1968.
Neither natural ability without instruction nor instruction without natural ability can make the perfect artist. Let him be educated, skilful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens.
vitruvius— Chapter I, Sec. 3Variant translation (by Frank Granger): "For neither talent without instruction nor instruction without talent can produce the perfect craftsman."
"To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."
— Chapter 1, "The Angel Gibreel" (first sentence).
Thou wert before the Continents, before The hollow heavens, which like another sea Encircles them and thee, but whence thou wert, And when thou wast created, is not known, Antiquity was young when thou wast old.
richard henry stoddard— Richard Henry Stoddard, Hymn to the Sea, line 104.
Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields.
— Homer, The Iliad, Book VII, line 525. Bryant's translation.
Eyes of some men travel far For the finding of a star; Up and down the heavens they go, Men that keep a mighty rout! I'm as great as they, I trow, Since the day I found thee out, Little Flower! I'll make a stir, Like a sage astronomer.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, To the Small Celandine; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 91.
Wonderful Originator of the heavens and the earth! And when He decrees an affair, He says to it only, Be, and it is.
— 117 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
william shakespeare— Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, said by Claudius
Translation: The blue distance, the mysterious heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air.
konstantin eduardovich tsiolkovsky— from "The Successes of Air Balloons in the XIX Century", 1901 [5]
