There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

—Robert Quillen

About Robert Quillen

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Verni Robert Quillen (March 25, 1887 – December 9, 1948) was an American journalist and humorist who for more than a quarter century was "one of the leading purveyors of village nostalgia" from his home in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. In 2012, his office and library was listed on the...

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If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

—Robert Quillen

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

—Robert Quillen

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As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

—Robert Quillen

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In the Koran, Allah asks, "The heaven and the earth and all in between, thinkest thou I made them in jest?" It's a good question. What do we think of the created universe, spanning an unthinkable void with an unthinkable profusion of forms?… If the giant water bug was not made in jest, was it then made in earnest?

—Annie Dillard

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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

—Christian Nestell Bovee

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Moses sees the bush as it actually is.… All that is living burns. This is the fundamental fact of nature. And Moses saw it with his own two eyes directly. That glimpse of the real world—of the world as it is known to God—is not a world of isolated things but of processes in concert. God tells Moses, "Take off your shoes, because the ground where you are standing is holy ground." He is asking Moses to experience in his own body what the burning bush experiences: a living connection between heaven and earth, the life that stretches out like taffy between our father the sun and our mother the earth. If you do not believe this, take off your shoes and stand in the grass or in the sand or in the dirt.

—William Bryant Logan

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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

—Henry Ward Beecher

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

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