It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.
~By Matthew Henry ~
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 ~
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
~By Douglas Horton ~
He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
~By Nathaniel Parker Willis ~
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 ~
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
~By Joseph Addison ~
I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
~By Joel Osteen ~
The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven.
~By Graham Leonard ~
Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.
~By Jon Lovitz ~
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
~By Augustus Hare ~
He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven, and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights.
~By Saint Bonaventure Sequoyah ~
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
~By David Hume ~
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
~By John Webster ~
Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
~By Beth Orton ~
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
~By Michelangelo ~
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
~By Robert Browning ~
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
~By Lao Tzu ~
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
~By Billy Graham ~
Order is heaven's first law.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
~By Michelangelo ~
The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
~By Martin Luther ~
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
~By Anne Sexton ~
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
~By William Howard Taft ~
I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
~By Eden Ahbez ~
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
~By Matthew Henry ~
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire!
~By Gunther Schuller ~
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
~By Boethius ~
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
~By Bob Feller ~
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 ~
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
~By Pedro Calderon de la Barca ~
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
~By Samuel Butler ~
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 ~
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.
~By Samuel Hopkins ~
For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.
~By William Barclay ~
Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.
~By Bob Hayes ~
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.
~By Elinor Wylie ~
A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
~By Camille Paglia ~
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.
~By Lu Yu ~
Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.
~By William Gurnall ~
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
~By David Hare ~
I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.
~By Will Carleton ~
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!
~By Knut Hamsun ~
If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!
~By Jerry Lee Lewis ~
I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.
~By Karl Urban ~
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
~By Dwight L. Moody ~
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 ~
War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
~By Russell M. Nelson ~
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
~By George Orwell ~
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
~By John Lyly ~
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
~By Lord Byron ~
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
~By Lord Byron ~
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
~By Francis Beaumont ~
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
In journalistic terms, syndication is equivalent to ascending to heaven on a pillar of cloud.
~By John Skow ~
I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
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 ~
In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
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.
~By Judith Krantz ~
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
~By Moliere ~
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
~By Doris Lessing ~
We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going.
~By Tom McCall ~
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
~By Pat Robertson ~
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
~By Leon Battista Alberti ~
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.
~By Ruth Pitter ~
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
~By Sydney Smith ~
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
~By Robert Southey ~
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
~By Salma Hayek ~
I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.
~By Melissa Etheridge ~
I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
~By Frances Farmer ~
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.
~By Neil Tennant ~
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
~By George Berkeley ~
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
~By Mark Twain ~
Not all of those who cry "The poor, the poor!" will enter the kingdom of heaven.
~By Michael Novak ~
What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
~By Sally Rand ~
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 ~
King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.
~By Joan of Arc ~
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.
~By Mother Teresa ~
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