Quotes about heaven

"Heaven for climate, Hell for company."

Barrie, Sir James M. on heaven   

"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."

Beecher, Henry Ward on heaven   

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"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork"

Bible on heaven   

"Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. [Mathew]"

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"Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all else shall be added unto you. [Mathew]"

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"It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."

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"Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy."

Blake, William on heaven   

"Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders."

Brandeis, Louis D. on heaven   

"But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind."

Brooke, Rupert on heaven   

"We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country."

Buck, Pearl S. on heaven   

"It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them."

Caird, Dr. on heaven   

"To be with God."

Confucius on heaven
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"I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven."

Corot, Jean-Baptiste on heaven   

"Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not again be proved."

Dickinson, Emily on heaven   

"Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!"

Dylan, Bob on heaven   

"Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on heaven
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"Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close."

Frost, Robert on heaven
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"Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on heaven
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"Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there."

Goldman, Emma on heaven   

"If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it."

Gordimer, Nadine on heaven   

"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."

Hardy, Thomas on heaven   

"Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth."

Hare, David on heaven   

"Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal."

Harnack, Adolph on heaven   

"To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors."

Hemingway, Ernest on heaven
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"As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven."

Horton, Doug on heaven   

"If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?"

Horton, Doug on heaven
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"The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated."

Horton, Doug on heaven   

"You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman."

Joyce, James on heaven   

"The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, do you think they were created in jest?"

Koran, The on heaven   

"The ink of the scholar and the blood of a martyr are of equal value in heaven."

Koran, The on heaven   

"If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead."

Law, William on heaven   

"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this."

Lewis, C. S. on heaven
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"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."

Lewis, C. S. on heaven
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"Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither."

Lewis, C. S. on heaven
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"Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on heaven   

"Everybody wants to go heaven, but nobody wants to die."

Louis, Joe on heaven   

"In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be."

Maclaren, Alexander on heaven   

"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."

Moody, Dwight L. on heaven   

"No man can resolve himself into Heaven."

Moody, Dwight L. on heaven   

"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter."

Morley, Christopher on heaven