I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.
~By Charles Evers ~
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.
~By John Woolman ~
For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
~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 ~
We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
~By Thomas More ~
Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.
~By Li Po ~
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
~By Guru Nanak ~
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 ~
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.
~By Elinor Wylie ~
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
~By John Le Carre ~
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
~By Confucius ~
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 ~
Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
~By George Farquhar ~
Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.
~By Terence Stamp ~
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
~By William Shakespeare ~
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
~By Humphrey Gilbert ~
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.
~By Geoffrey Fisher ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.
~By John Stott ~
Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.
~By Hugh Laurie ~
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 ~
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.
~By John Woolman ~
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 ~
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
~By John Lubbock ~
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 ~
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
~By Peter Tosh ~
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 ~
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
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.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
~By Thomas Moore ~
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.
~By Robert Ballard ~
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
~By Dinah Maria Mulock ~
There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.
~By Mattie Stepanek ~
My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say.
~By Susan Smith ~
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
~By Alexander Solzhenitsyn ~
We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyke is of the company.
~By Thomas Gainsborough ~
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
~By George Herbert ~
This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
~By Tina Turner ~
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 ~
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
~By Plato ~
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
~By Charles V ~
Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
~By George William Russell ~
I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.
~By Howard Lindsay ~
I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
~By Edvard Munch ~
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 ~
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
~By Franz Kafka ~
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
~By Billy Graham ~
And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
~By Charles Henry Parkhurst ~
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.
~By Will Carleton ~
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
~By Miguel De Cervantes ~
It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
~By Jesus Christ ~
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.
~By Walter Lang ~
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
~By Thomas More ~
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
~By Lord Byron ~
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
~By Buddha ~
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
~By Jesus Christ ~
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
~By Plautus ~
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
~By Mencius ~
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 ~
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 ~
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
~By Robert Smithson ~
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 ~
I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.
~By Laurel Lee ~
I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
~By Josephine Baker ~
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
~By William Wilberforce ~
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
~By Washington Irving ~
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