Heaven Quotes

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

We've had some really good guest stars. But I have to go with Alec Baldwin as my favorite. He is so neat and such a movie star. He's handsome and quirky. I was in heaven the week he was on the set.

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case.