Great Throughts Treasury

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Paul Gerhardt

We are in this life as it were in another man's house... In Heaven is our home, in the World is our Inn.

Heaven | Life | Life | Man | Wisdom | World |

Richard Fuller

True religion is not what men see and admire; it is what God sees and loves... The cheerful consecration of all the powers of the soul; the worship which rising above all outward forms, ascends to God in the sweetest, dearest communion - a worship often too deep for utterance, and than which the highest heaven knows nothing more sublime.

Consecration | God | Heaven | Men | Nothing | Religion | Soul | Wisdom | Worship | God |

Henry Giles

Man is greater than a world, than systems of worlds; there is more mystery in the union of soul with the physical than in the creation of a universe.

Man | Mystery | Soul | Universe | Wisdom | World |

Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855) and his brother Augustus William Hare

The intellect of the wise is like glass. It admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Heaven | Light | Wisdom | Wise | Intellect |

Thomas Hardy

The main objective of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Heaven | Man | Religion | Wisdom |

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Twin-sister of natural and revealed religion, and of heavenly birth, science will never belie her celestial origin, nor cease to sympathize with all that emanates from the same pure home. Human ignorance and prejudice may for a time seem to have divorced what God has joined together; but human ignorance and prejudice shall at length pass away, and then science and religion shall be seen blending their parti-colored rays into one beautiful bow of light, linking heaven to earth and earth to heaven.

Birth | Earth | God | Heaven | Ignorance | Light | Prejudice | Religion | Science | Time | Will | Wisdom | God |

Horace, full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus NULL

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Daring | Folly | Heaven | Nothing | Wisdom |

Aldous Leonard Huxley

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Culture | Heaven | Hypocrisy | Wisdom |

Herbert Hoover, fully Herbert Clark Hoover

Even if governmental conduct of business could give us more efficiency instead of less efficiency, the fundamental objection to it would remain unaltered and unabated. It would destroy political equality. It would increase rather than decrease abuse and corruption. It would stifle initiative and invention. It would undermine the development of leadership. It would cramp and cripple the mental and spiritual energies of our people. It would extinguish equality and opportunity. It would dry up the spirit of liberty and progress.

Abuse | Business | Conduct | Corruption | Destroy | Efficiency | Equality | Initiative | Invention | Liberty | Opportunity | People | Progress | Spirit | Wisdom | Business |

Arsène Houssaye

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens heaven to us in the midst of every tempest.

Heaven | Hope | Wisdom | World |

Thomas Hobbes

To equal justice appertaineth also the equal imposition of taxes; the equality whereof dependeth not on the equality of riches, but on the equality of the debt that every man oweth to the commonwealth for his defense.

Debt | Defense | Equality | Justice | Man | Riches | Wisdom |

Aldous Leonard Huxley

It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human. We are saved, we are liberated and enlightened, by perceiving the hitherto unperceived good that is already within us, by returning to our eternal Ground and remaining where, without knowing it, we have always been.

Eternal | Good | Heaven | Knowing | Wisdom |

Louis Kossuth, also Lajos Kossuth, fully Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva

I know that there is one God in heaven, the Father of all humanity, and heaven is therefore one. I know that there is one sun in the sky, which gives light to all the world. As there is unity in God, and unity in the light, so is there unity in the principles of freedom. Whatever it is broken, wherever a shadow is cast upon the sunny rays of the sun of liberty, there is always danger of free principles everywhere in the world.

Danger | Father | Freedom | God | Heaven | Humanity | Liberty | Light | Principles | Unity | Wisdom | World | Danger | God |