Stealing Heaven

Famous quotes containing the words stealing and/or heaven:

    “While he hears in every spring
    How the birds do chirp and sing:
    Or before the hounds in cry
    See the hare go stealing by:
    Or along the shallow brook,
    Angling with a baited hook,
    See the fishes leap and play
    In a blessed sunny day:”
    —Nicholas Breton (1542–1626)

    “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Revelation 8:1.