Definition of Heavenly

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Heavenly

Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.

Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng.

In a manner resembling that of heaven.

By the influence or agency of heaven.

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Heavenly Quotations

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
John Calvin

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Robert A. Heinlein

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
Franz Kafka

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
Maimonides

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Isaac Newton

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Thomas Carlyle

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Heavenly Translations

heavenly in Dutch is hemels, hemel-
heavenly in Italian is celestiale
heavenly in Latin is caelestis
heavenly in Norwegian is himmelsk
heavenly in Spanish is celeste, celestial
heavenly in Swedish is himmelskt

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