Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
~By John Osborne ~
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
~By William Congreve ~
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
~By Anatole France ~
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 ~
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.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
~By Samuel Rutherford ~
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
~By Jean Paul ~
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.
~By Mordecai Wyatt Johnson ~
We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.
~By John McGahern ~
But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.
~By William Barclay ~
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 ~
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 ~
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
~By Frederick II ~
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 ~
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
~By John Milton ~
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.
~By George Linnaeus Banks ~
Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.
~By Dom DeLuise ~
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
~By John Le Carre ~
Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.
~By Elizabeth Hurley ~
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
~By John Milton ~
You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.
~By Roy Bean ~
I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
~By Robert Greene ~
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
~By Moliere ~
When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven!
~By Thomas Howard ~
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
~By Desmond Tutu ~
Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
~By Patti Smith ~
If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
~By La Monte Young ~
I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.
~By Matthew Henry ~
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
~By David Hare ~
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
~By Barbara Walters ~
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
~By Lucretius ~
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
~By John Calvin ~
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 ~
Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.
~By Robert Bolt ~
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 ~
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 ~
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
~By Ken Olsen ~
Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
~By Derek Walcott ~
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
~By Thomas More ~
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
~By Douglas Horton ~
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 ~
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
~By Michelangelo ~
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
~By Brian Greene ~
I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?
~By Brian Celio ~
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
~By Samuel Butler ~
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
~By James Whistler ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
~By William C. Bryant ~
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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 ~
I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.
~By Joel Osteen ~
They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
~By Nathaniel Parker Willis ~
Heaven means to be one with God.
~By Confucius ~
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
~By Thomas Moore ~
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 ~
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
~By Plautus ~
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 ~
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 ~
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
~By Mencius ~
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
~By Salma Hayek ~
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
~By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ~
One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.
~By Ruth Pitter ~
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
~By Thomas More ~
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
~By Sophocles ~
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 ~
The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
~By Richard Steele ~
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 ~
Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
~By Franz Kafka ~
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
~By Johannes Kepler ~
What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.
~By Christina Romer ~
To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.
~By Delphine de Girardin ~
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 ~
Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,.
~By Joshua Sylvester ~
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
~By Francis Thompson ~
Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.
~By Michael Servetus ~
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
~By Helen Gurley Brown ~
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ~
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
~By James A. Baldwin ~
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 ~
Not all of those who cry "The poor, the poor!" will enter the kingdom of heaven.
~By Michael Novak ~
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