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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! -- Robert Browning
I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college. -- Tom Perrotta
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. -- Joseph Campbell
Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture. -- Eric Horvitz
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. -- Lord Byron
Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. -- Helen Keller
Rapture is the gateway to nirvana. -- Sharon Salzberg
Rapture's self is three parts sorrow. -- Amy Lowell
The Rapture: The ultimate Republican back-up plan. -- Jon Stewart
The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)" -- Charles Stross
Seen at Liberty University: "I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due." -- Kevin Roose
I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed. -- Sharon Shinn
[To Timothy LaHaye:] So, Mr. LaHaye, when the Rapture happens, can I have your stuff? -- Rachel Maddow
I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed." -- Sharon Shinn
Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs. -- Joan Rivers
Oh! Many a time and oft had Harold loved, or dream'd he'd loved since Rapture is a dream." -- George Gordon Byron
He captured my heart. He loves me for who I am, not what I can bring to him."- Lucinda Price, Rapture" -- Lauren Kate
He captured my heart. He loves me for who I am, not what I can bring to him." - Lucinda Price, Rapture -- Lauren Kate
Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds. -- Mary Roach
Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds." -- Mary Roach
6 weeks since the Rapture "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." Corinthians 15:50" -- Phillip W. Simpson
Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat. -- Paul Valery
She's sweet but too apocalyptic. You try kissing someone good-night who's just told you for the umpteenth time that the world's experiencing its last disgusting paroxysm before Rapture." -- George Saunders
Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture." -- Stephen Colbert
Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America-we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture. -- Stephen Colbert
Respect Joy. Joy is not something that happens instead of something else important; It isn't a waste of time; It is, really, what time was invented for." -David Sosnowski, Rapture. (Pg. 92)" -- David Sosnowski
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. -- Clive Bell
5 weeks since the Rapture "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition." Thessalonians 2:3" -- Phillip W. Simpson
Before the final rat has eaten the last gram of you, Rapture will have returned. I will lead a paradeWho was that," they'll say, as they point to the sad shape hanging on my wall, "who was that?" -- Andrew Ryan
Let the power come. Let ecstasy erupt. Allow your heart to expand and overflow with adoration for this magnificent creation and for the love, wisdom and power that birthed it all. Rapture is needed now - rapture, reverence and grace. -- Ann Mortifee
Probably hundreds of thousands of saved pregnant mothers are going to be going up in the Rapture, and you know good and well they are going to have their babies either in Heaven or when they get back to Earth in the Millennium! -- David Berg
I think my favourite song on the album [Second Hand Rapture'] is 'Head Is Not My Home', I love the vocal melody and it's such a power hit of a track. Every time it pops on I like listening to it, I'm really drawn to it. -- Lizzy Plapinger
And now, we have no option. We can't say 'maybe' 'it's possible' 'it looks very probable...' No way! We have to say this is what the Bible teaches! This is fact! May 21, 2011 is the day of the Rapture, it is the day that Judgment Day begins..." -- Harold Camping
One year before the Rapture "...that proves how marvellous God's love is, even for the most miserable human beings, being that demons can never take a human figure in a perfect form, and so the most stupid people are able to discover them." Nicholas Remy, Daemonolatreiae libri tres, 1595." -- Phillip W. Simpson
Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence. -- Christopher Smart
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it. -- Joseph Campbell
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. -- James F. Cooper
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. -- D. H. Lawrence
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door). -- William Maxwell
Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture. -- Vladimir Nabokov
When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. -- Charles Edward Montague
In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. -- Joseph Campbell
It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations. -- Paul Brunton
I would like people to live in the present with eternity in mind. If there is, in fact, going to be rapture one day, in which we leave everything behind, shouldn't that loosen our grip on our material possessions right now? -- Robert Jeffress
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually. -- Martin Seligman
Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination. -- Frank Zappa
Enraptured in hypnotic war" -- Allen Ginsberg
What most enraptured me were the asparagus." -- Marcel Proust
It's all impermanent, and in perfect rapture" -- Brian E. Miller
Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture." -- Chuck Klosterman
Art is a kind of rapture. Surrender enough, you find truth." -- Kirsty Eagar
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse." -- Edmund Waller
AZRAEL:No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air." -- Kevin Smith
Its reward is in the doing,And the rapture of pursuingIs the prize" -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All this rapture," managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother's grasp, "is decidedly premature." -- Lauren Willig
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?" -- Novalis
The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music." -- Johnny Marr
There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.' -- Teresa Medeiros
I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'" -- Stephen Moyer
Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange." -- J. M. Coetzee
Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate." -- William Hazlitt
Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me." -- Poppet
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There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians. -- Tim LaHaye
There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians." -- Tim LaHaye
The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty." -- Anthony S. Maulucci
I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me." -- Virginia Woolf
We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind." -- A.W. Tozer
The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness)." -- Christopher Hitchens
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth." -- Sydney Smith
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door)." -- William Maxwell
Oh, sweet emotions, gentle harmony, goodness and peace of thesoftened heart, melting bliss of the first raptures of love, where are they,where are they?" -- Ivan Turgenev
Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture." -- Vladimir Nabokov
When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story." -- Jerry B. Jenkins
Sir, don't make a bigger fool out of yourself because I promise you, if my car is not here when I leave service today . . . just pray for rapture." -- Jevon L. Mack
The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity." -- Kathryn Harrison
If oceans of timecould grantheart one simple desireWe would be lovers afloaton trained trapeze high wirePleasurably bound byinvisible chordsof raptureHarnessed in mid air embraced foiled skilled arms of capture" -- Zuky Rose Leigh
L shot Maki a disappointed look. But soon he forgot everything when Misa Amane appeared onstage. Enraptured he began to cheer with the girls in black lace and frilly skirts." -- Tsugumi Ohba
In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did." -- Jerry B. Jenkins
Crap. I was hopin' all things ugly had been raptured, but you're still muckin' up the planet.""We must share the same faith, honey. 'Cause beauty checked out when you showed up." -- Courtney Vail
Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood. -- Joni Mitchell
There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain." -- David Levithan
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time." -- Joseph Campbell
I want you to get swept away out there. I want you to levitate. I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish. Be deliriously happy, or at least leave yourself open to be." -- Meet Joe Black
Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces...where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle." -- Witold Gombrowicz
Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country." -- Karl Philipp Moritz
It's true, the Church will be raptured before the final seven years of Earth's history, but during that final seven years, many people will come to faith in Christ, but they will pay a terrible price to do so. -- Robert Jeffress
In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith." -- Eugene Linden
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living." -- Helen Keller
The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding there passages of heartrending beauty and rapture that one could never imagine coming from such a tedious person." -- Andrew Sean Greer
Thou wouldst not enslave man by a miracle, and didst crave faith given freely, not based on miracle. Thou didst crave for free love and not the base raptures of the slave before the might that has overawed him for ever." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture." -- Tom Stoppard
One belief is that it is easier to die, than to live. I'd rather make friends with Death, as a means to learn a few truths, than to allow life to lead me blindly astray within its subjective views and enraptured sciolism." -- Lionel Suggs
A sense of calm envelopes me, a feeling close to rapture. Swimming is one of the best things in my life. It has never solved any problems, but it has done no harm, and nothing has ever ruined it for me. Swimming." -- Haruki Murakami
Not the bee upon the blossom,In the pride o' sunny noon;Not the little sporting fairy,All beneath the simmer moon;Not the poet, in the momentFancy lightens in his e'e,Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,That thy presence gi'es to me." -- Robert Burns
Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods." -- L.M. Montgomery
How dearly, indeed, I loved my pit, my dusky room, the area of my desk with its piles of books! How I enjoyed introspection, shrouded myself in cogitation; with what rapture did I listen for the rustling of frail insects in the thickets of my nerves!" -- Yukio Mishima
She was famous, and she was insane.Her voice soared out over the audience, holding them spellbound and enraptured, delivering their hopes and fears tangled in chords and rhythm. They called her an angel, her voice a gift.She was famous, and she was a liar." -- Dianne Sylvan
And we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony." -- George Eliot
Out of your whole life give but a moment!All of your life that has gone before,All to come after it, -so you ignore,So you make perfect the present, condense,In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment,Thought and feeling and soul and sense." -- Robert Browning
I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles." -- Rachel Kushner
We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex." -- Anthony Kiedis
Madeleine was enraptured by Garrison's tan complexion, which greatly differed from the pale boys of London. It wasn't actually the boys' fault, as the whole of the United Kingdom was under a cloud for much of the year. But at that moment, Madeleine decided that boys, like bread, were better toasted." -- Gitty Daneshvari
You can be in love with someone you hardly know, all romance and rapture and starry eyes.... But you can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you have lived with them and shared experience... you have got to share living before you can find love." -- Stan Barstow
I am the Penitent God. And tonight, I have begun my battle. My siege. The hundred-thousand Ink-borne arrows, flying forth from my flaming pen, to assault the walls of tyrannical Cold that hold this man in awful rapture. My campaign for my friend's very soul. My war of Ice, Ink, and Ember." -- S.G. Night
There is enough said. Trouble no quiet, kind heart; leave sunny imaginations hope. Let it be theirs to conceive the delight of joy born again fresh out of great terror, the rapture of rescue from peril, the wondrous reprieve from dread, the fruition of return. Let them picture union and a happy succeeding life." -- Charlotte Bronte
So the price of careless rapture is a twisted history chronicled by envy. You were too busy being. And you are too busy now. You couldn't spare the time to note down a few facts: how the sun and silence poured into the big room with the yellow curtains; how everything was never-ending and expendable." -- Elizabeth Smart
Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced to read some of the passages aloud, his dramatic rendering being greeted by wolflike howls of enthusiasim and hails of live pits." -- Diana Gabaldon
YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN A MIX OF TRIUMPHS AND TOILS, CHALLENGES AND TESTS, AND YOU HAVE BEEN FOUND WORTHY. YOUR FAITH IN ME AND YOUR LOVING HEART ARE A TESTAMENT TO MY PEOPLE.'Thank you, my God.'COME, BE WITH ME. SIT WITH ME AT MY TABLE; JOIN ME IN RAPTURE. AND BRING YOUR CUTE FRIEND TOO." -- Daniel Keidl
You can kiss somebody else's spouse and get away with it. You can kiss a member of the same sex with near impunity. You can give an incestuous kiss on the sly. You can tongue-kiss a dog or exchange raptures with lab rats. But you can't kiss death without death kissing you back. Death is a passionate kisser." -- Supervert
Neither Emma's tears nor her rage were enough to make Joseph monogamous, however; nor were the prevailing mores of the day. He kept falling rapturously in love with women not his wife. And because that rapture was so wholly consuming, and felt so good, it struck him as impossible that God might possibly frown on such a thing." -- Jon Krakauer
How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?" -- Salman Rushdie
All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms." -- Hermann Hesse
When I review my travels among the astronauts, my mind's eye goes first to the Houston shopping mall where Alan Bean sat for hours after returning from space, just eating ice cream and watching the people swirl around him, enraptured by the simple yet miraculous fact they they were there and alive in that moment, and so was he." -- Andrew Smith
There is eloquence in the tonguelesswind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of thereeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to somethingwithin the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathlessrapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, likethe enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one belovedsinging to you alone." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
After a few brief simple moments, he found her neck, kissing the nape as if it were a peach, grazing her skin barely, causing her to moan out a small tiny little whimper. Before she could take another rbreath, his lips met hers in rapture, and suddenly, she was lost within the tragic abyss of falling beneath a lovebinding spell." -- Keira D. Skye

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