Heaven Quotes

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.