Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat leading to bad science and worse religion.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Your enjoyment of the world is never right till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace and look upon the skies the earth and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all as if you were among the angels.

Love is a portion of the soul itself and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

One of the great questions of philosophy is do we innately have morality or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.