Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved. Corneille.
Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep. A. B. Alcott.
Heaven, which really in one sense is merciful to sinners, is in no sense merciful to fools, but even lays pitfalls for them and inevitable snares. Ruskin.
Heaven's above all; and there be souls that 15 must be saved, and there be souls that must not be saved. Othello, ii. 3.
Heavens! can you then thus waste, in shameful wise, / Your few important days of trial here? / Heirs of eternity! yborn to rise / Through endless states of being, still more near / To bliss approaching, and perfection clear. Thomson.
Heaven's eternal wisdom hath decreed that man of man should ever stand in need. Theocritus.
Heaven's fire confounds when fann'd with folly's breath. Quarles.
Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees. Daniel Webster.
Heavens! if privileged from trial, / How cheap 20 a thing were virtue! Thomson.
Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself that hideous sight—a naked human heart. Young.