"Heaven should grant that this level of interest exists on every aspect of Jewish law".
He wasn't greedy, he was generous, sticking, it seems, all of his life to the dictates of this little ode by Samuel Wesley: "No glory I covet, no riches I want, Ambition is nothing to me; The one thing I beg of kind Heaven to grant Is a mind independent and free".
He said that heaven had granted them in their humility and simplicity the privilege of recovering the Holy Land...they gradually began to follow him, leaving their flocks, herds and studs without asking their lords or relatives.Some 100,000 shepherds, supposedly, were mustered for their first crusade.
He was 80. On his deathbed, eight years later, he cried out, "If heaven would only grant me 10 more years, I might still become a great artist".
This is the best that can happen - that Heaven perhaps will grant us: not to be wondered at or required to succeed but simply to be let in as part of an undeniable Reality, like stones of the road, like trees.
11 He said to them in reply, "Because knowledge of the mysteries of heaven have been granted to you, but to them it has not been granted.
She hands us permission slips that read, "Art Heaven and Carole Watanabe hereby grant you permission to create solely for your own enjoyment".
Dark chocolate Maltesers Look like rabbit droppings, granted, but taste like heaven.
Also, simply believing in God, as Pascal puts it, does not grant you eternal benefit from heaven.
