Sentence examples for heaven down from inspiring English sources

In my upcoming book, Keeping the Faith Without a Religion ( Sounds True, March 1st) I explore how secular spirituality brings heaven down to earth, into the life of our everyday; how, like Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and countless others through history, it encourages everyone to be their own priest.

Satan was once a head angel in Heaven, but he became overly prideful, which resulted in God casting him out of Heaven down to earth.

Like Adams in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Rich drags heaven down to Earth.

Her Christmas present was the willingness to bring heaven down to Earth.

"Now it's our responsibility to bring heaven down to earth -- act by act, good deed by good deed, until we reach the day when no family will need to endure grief and sorrow, the day we reach a world filled with goodness and light".

Where Chez Panisse was built from the ground up, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture has been built from the heavens down, with $30 million in backing from David Rockefeller, the 88-year-old grandson of John D. Rockefeller.

Mr. Romney, for his part, says he often imagines his father in heaven looking down at the race.

The effect, like Heaven pressing down to earth, is exactly the opposite of the symbolic updraft of Christian religious architecture.

I rarely feel nostalgic, but I have an image of King George and Herbert Morrison up in Heaven, looking down at their grandsons, shaking their heads.

"Babel was marketed as if it was manna from heaven coming down to us with some deep, dark secret about humanity," one veteran Hollywood marketing consultant said.

"We know you're in heaven looking down, and we hope you're enjoying your send-off," Mr. Going said to the women, bringing laughter amid tears.