Heaven

Heaven

Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious, cosmological, mythological, or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings (such as a God, angels, the jinn, and sky deities like King or Queen of Heaven, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother, Son of Heaven, heavenly saints or venerated ancestors) originate, are enthroned or inhabit. It is commonly believed that heavenly beings can descend to earth or incarnate and that earthly beings can ascend to Heaven in the afterlife or, in exceptional cases, enter Heaven alive.

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Famous quotes containing the word heaven:

    Bed is the poor man’s opera.
    Italian proverb, quoted in Aldous Huxley, Heaven and Hell (1956)

    Shall I go to heaven or a-fishing?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Only where love and need are one,
    And the work is play for mortal stakes,
    Is the deed every really done
    For Heaven and the future’s sakes.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)