“They who accord with Heaven are preserved, and they who rebel against Heaven perish.”

— Mencius

Book 4, part 1, ch. 7
The Mencius

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Chinese philosopher -372–-289 BC

Wang Chi-chen (1899–2001)

Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (1958), p. 290

“When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?”

Stephen R. Lawhead book Hood

Source: Hood

“[W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on this earth… and as someone who believes, according to my faith, I will go to Heaven when I die, I am pretty sure that there is duck hunting in Heaven!”

Mike Huckabee (1955) Arkansas politician

speaking to an NRA group
[Huckabee, Fluent in the NRA’s Language, Jim, Geraghty, 2007-09-21, National Review, http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/11849/huckabee-fluent-nras-language, 2011-03-01]

“Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.”

Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian

Fragment 288. (Plumptre's translation, as cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1906)
Variant: Heaven never helps the man who will not act.

“He who understood the secrets of the Truth
Became vaster than the vast heaven;
Mulla says “Ahmad went to heaven”;
Sarmad says “Nay, heaven came down to Ahmad.””

Sarmad Kashani (1590–1661) Persian mystic, poet and saint

[Asiri 1950, No. 126] Asiri 1950 — Asiri, Fazl Mahmud. Rubaiyat-i-Sarmad. Shantiniketan, 1950. Quoted from SARMAD: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SUFI https://iphras.ru/uplfile/smirnov/ishraq/3/24_prig.pdf by N. Prigarina

“In my opinion, no one can enter heaven of their own accord”

Titon Rahmawan

“Who has not found the Heaven — below —
Will fail of it above”

Emily Dickinson Who has not found the Heaven — below —

1544: Who has not found the Heaven — below —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Who loves his country never forfeits heaven.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: Savonarola (1881), Candida to Valori in Act IV, sc. vi; p. 285.

“For no human defense avails against Heaven.”

Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere

Canzone 270, st. 6
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Death

“In my opinion the religion that makes men rebel and fight against their government is not the genuine article, nor is the religion the right sort which reconciles them to the idea of eating their bread in the sweat of other men's faces. It is not the kind to get to heaven on.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

As quoted in Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865 https://archive.org/details/recollectionsab00lamogoog (1895), by Ward Hill Lamon, p. 90
1860s

“They who accord with Heaven are preserved, and they who rebel against Heaven perish.”

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