"Heavenly City" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thousands of souls Talmage redeemed from the yokes of sin and shame by the glorious Gospel preached with such fervour and power of the Holy Ghost. What a mighty army stood ready to greet him at the gates of the heavenly city as the warrior passed in to be crowned ...
— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage
... Mount Zion, and Jerusalem, were both used to denote the city which the Lord chose above all the goodly places of earth to put his name there. It is proper to designate the heavenly city, the new Jerusalem, by all the names which were applied to the old. The king is to be set upon the holy hill of Zion—"Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces," Psa. 48:12, 13. ...
— A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse • Sylvester Bliss
... of hope. Everything perfect, wonderful, real. It only needs a cathedral to be a heavenly city instead of ...
— Major Barbara • George Bernard Shaw
... bread. Day by day I strove to gain enough to buy colours, but could not, for the Lord sent me ever a neighbour poorer than myself. Nevertheless I was of good courage, knowing the Lord's ways are not as ours; and mindful how Brother Ambrose held that inasmuch as the Heavenly City is laid with fair colours 'twere no sin to deem that a man may limn perfect pictures there, for the gift ...
— The Gathering of Brother Hilarius • Michael Fairless |
