In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
~By William Gurnall ~
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
~By Plautus ~
Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
~By Beth Orton ~
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
~By Salma Hayek ~
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
~By John Mason Brown ~
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.
~By Lactantius ~
I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.
~By Josiah Royce ~
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
~By John Webster ~
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
~By John Foxe ~
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
~By John Le Carre ~
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
~By Boethius ~
Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
~By George Crabbe ~
There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.
~By Maureen Reagan ~
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
~By William Blake ~
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
~By Barbara Mandrell ~
We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyke is of the company.
~By Thomas Gainsborough ~
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
~By William Shakespeare ~
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
~By William Law ~
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
~By Bill Hybels ~
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
~By Robert Smithson ~
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
~By Giovanni Boccaccio ~
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.
~By William Blake ~
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
~By Marjorie Holmes ~
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.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
~By John Milton ~
But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
~By Eddie Bracken ~
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
~By Izaak Walton ~
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
~By John Updike ~
Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
~By Ben Harper ~
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
~By Mark Knopfler ~
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
~By Johnny Cash ~
God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.
~By George Phillips Bond ~
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
~By James A. Baldwin ~
There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.
~By Eliza Haywood ~
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
~By Brian Greene ~
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.
~By Colleen McCullough ~
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
~By Thomas More ~
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
~By Charles Ives ~
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
~By Thomas More ~
I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
~By T. E. Lawrence ~
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
~By Confucius ~
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
~By Douglas Horton ~
There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
~By Patricia Sun ~
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
~By Gerard Manley Hopkins ~
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.
~By Joanna Southcott ~
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
~By H. G. Wells ~
Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
~By Bob Feller ~
I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.
~By Stephen Collins ~
If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.
~By Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ~
In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
~By Billy Graham ~
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.
~By Thomas Traherne ~
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
~By John Lubbock ~
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
~By Joseph Addison ~
If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
~By George Wald ~
Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
~By Jacques Prevert ~
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
~By Humphrey Gilbert ~
Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
~By Patti Smith ~
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
~By Mary Todd Lincoln ~
Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.
~By Li Po ~
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.
~By Barbara Walters ~
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
~By John Osborne ~
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
~By Mark Twain ~
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.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.
~By Lionel Blue ~
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