Sentence examples for seeking heaven from inspiring English sources

No doubt this offends those who would like to believe that their religion is all about seeking "heaven above" while allowing millions even billions of people to continue to live in misery or without hope of a decent existence, or who think they can save their own souls by substituting "charity" for fundamental justice (more about that in the future).

We seek Heaven for grace and mercy and redemption as we try not to get better but to be better.

Tomorrow someone will stare north over the Imjin River, sky the color of solder, someone grieving a father or mother or brother sister, 11 million separated families, 11 million lost relations -- soul-light seeking the heaven of another, bittersweet, sweet-bitter as a hope hoped until it comes true, crossing where?

Kirkus Reviews described the book as "a rightly disturbing record of malignant child neglect by people who sought a heaven, but made a hell".

That was in 1768, and in the two and a half centuries since, sailors from Fletcher Christian to James Cook, writers from Robert Louis Stevenson to Jack London, painters like Gauguin, and tourists by the tens of thousands have followed, all seeking the same: Heaven on Earth.

By government estimates, more than 136 practitioners had committed suicide -- seeking a path to heaven "at the instigation of Li Hongzhi's heresies," Mr. Liu said -- even before the group was outlawed in July 1999.

THE THEATRE QUEENS FOR A DAY Nov. 6 A man seeking a flower of heaven for his bride gets caught up in the bustling city streets, in Charles Mee's "Queens Boulevard (the Musical)." The Signature Theatre Company production was inspired by a Kathakali dance drama.

For Sufis, the lesson of this sober image is that, in seeking to return to Heaven, we must risk falling into Hell.

CENTRAL bankers are not known for seeking solace in the heavens.

He stood there gazing upward, as if seeking inspiration from the heavens.

Heaven sought order.