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The precedence of faith over knowledge. "When at Sinai Israel said we shall do and we shall hear (instead of saying, we shall hear and we shall do), a heavenly voice went forth and exclaimed,"Who has revealed to My children this mystery, which the ministering angels enact, to fulfill His word before they hear the voice."
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
There are five incomplete phenomena (or unripe fruits). The incomplete experience of death is sleep; an incomplete form of prophecy is dream; the incomplete form of the world to come is the Sabbath; the incomplete form of the heavenly light is the orb of the sun; the incomplete form of heavenly wisdom is the Torah.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
— Karl Barth
In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?
— Charles Spurgeon
Loss of worldly riches is better than loss of heavenly treasures.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself.
— Andy Stanley
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.
— St. Augustine
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
— AB Simpson
A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.
— Richard Baxter
Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected.
— Tony Evans
Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.
— Joseph Wirthlin
What heavenly power lends an ear To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?
— Euripides