When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."
~By Stephen King ~
And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
~By Herman Melville ~
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 ~
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
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 ~
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
~By Jesus Christ ~
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 ~
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 ~
For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.
~By Nick Rahall ~
I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
~By Joel Osteen ~
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.
~By Bernie Mac ~
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
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 little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
~By William C. Bryant ~
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.
~By Tycho Brahe ~
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
~By Andrew Young ~
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 ~
I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
~By John Ford ~
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 ~
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 ~
The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.
~By Kerry Packer ~
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
~By John Osborne ~
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 ~
This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.
~By Rita Moreno ~
7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.
~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
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 ~
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
~By Federico Garcia Lorca ~
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
~By John Lyly ~
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 ~
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 ~
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
~By Plautus ~
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 ~
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 ~
Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
~By Candace Cameron ~
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 ~
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
~By Confucius ~
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 ~
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
~By Epictetus ~
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
~By William Shakespeare ~
We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyke is of the company.
~By Thomas Gainsborough ~
To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.
~By Ellis Peters ~
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
~By Camille Paglia ~
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
~By Alan Cohen ~
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
~By Bell Hooks ~
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
~By John Lubbock ~
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 ~
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
~By Mark Knopfler ~
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
~By Gary Player ~
The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.
~By Neil Tennant ~
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
~By Mark Twain ~
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
~By Thomas Moore ~
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.
~By Elinor Wylie ~
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
~By Samuel Butler ~
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
~By Giraldus Cambrensis ~
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
~By William Congreve ~
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
What a heaven is love! O what a hell!
~By Thomas Dekker ~
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
~By Douglas Horton ~
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 ~
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 ~
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
~By Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
~By Joseph Addison ~
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 ~
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
~By Augustus Hare ~
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
~By James A. Baldwin ~
Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
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 ~
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.
~By James Montgomery ~
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'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.
~By Nikki Cox ~
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
~By James Thurber ~
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 ~
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 ~
He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.
~By Christopher Love ~
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
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 ~
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 ~
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
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 ~
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