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Citizens of the Heavenly City is a valuable resource for Catholic students as well as other Catholics who need a clear explanation of just what the Church’s social teaching consists of and in what sense it obliges Catholics.
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Although no people can be seen in the Heavenly City, it is a symbol of hope and salvation, a contrast to the portrait of the devil on the opposing page.
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The torches and the fire made the sheer stream glow and sparkle like the battlements of the Heavenly City.
Prester John 2005
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She had sometimes fancied, after an unusually wide and vivid flash, that she had really been able to see a wee bit of a way into that Heavenly City which she had been taught was high above her, behind all that sky, in the blinding brightness.
The Heart of Arethusa Francis Barton Fox
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Can you fancy that sort of talk in the streets of the Heavenly City?
The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles H. J. Wilmot-Buxton
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We were -- religious Europe just arrived at the Heavenly City.
A Tramp's Sketches Stephen Graham 1929
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God has made the City of the World; the love of God extending to contempt of Self has made the Heavenly City.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909
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The torches and the fire made the sheer stream glow and sparkle like the battlements of the Heavenly City.
Prester John John Buchan 1907
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Let us look to that, the new Jerusalem, the Heavenly City, the vision of peace, and that will banish our sadness, we shall not be downcast at leaving so much that is pleasant behind, but rejoice that we pass on from things temporal to things eternal.
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Other said the Great King did not regard the actions of his subjects, that he had neither mines nor dungeons, and that all would certainly be taken to the _Heavenly City_.
The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island Johann David Wyss 1780
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