Both my parents always told me that, in order to be a good person, it was neither necessary nor desirable to believe in God; it was more noble and efficient to do good for disinterested reasons, without thoughts of Heaven.
Giancarlo's open karategi exposes his rippling muscles, and before long they're fucking as "thoughts of Heaven and eternity swirled through their minds, his swollen cap massaging her internal bed of precious nerves".
A snacker's idea of heaven, surely.
While reading Lisa Miller's "Heaven," I realized that Rylant's is my idea of heaven, too.
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To these we can add one further figure, Huan Tuan, whom China's earliest history of thought, "Under Heaven," Book 33 of the Zhuangzi, pairs with Gongsun Long.
The public thought of her as an angel from heaven and I had this very different knowledge about her.
Another important feature of Confucian thought is its inherent emphasis on equilibrium among Heaven, Earth and Human defined in terms of "the unity of heaven and men".
To Mozi, there is heaven, heaven has a will, and this will of heaven is to be obeyed by human beings and accepted as the unifying standard of human thought and action: "What is the will of heaven that is to be obeyed?
Entombment Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
