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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through read more
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.
Where billows never break, not tempests roar.
Where billows never break, not tempests roar.
Where tempests never beat nor billows roar.
Where tempests never beat nor billows roar.
While resignation gently slopes the way;
And, all his prospects brightening to the last,
His heaven commences read more
While resignation gently slopes the way;
And, all his prospects brightening to the last,
His heaven commences ere the world be past.
A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a
doorkeeper in the house read more
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.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
God keeps a niche
In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit
He brake them to our read more
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.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.
Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.