Quotes on Heaven

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Author: Amos Alcott

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

Author: Matthew Arnold

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.

Author: William Barclay

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

Author: Charles Baudelaire

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.

Author: Arnold Bennett

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

Author: Robert Bolt

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?

Author: Robert Browning

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

Author: Pat Buckley

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

Author: John Burroughs

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?

Author: Candace Cameron

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

Author: George Canning

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Author: Will Carleton

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

Author: John Carre

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

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.

Author: Joshua Chamberlain

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Author: Jesus Christ

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus

So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad.

Author: Deborah Cox

O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!

Author: Thomas Dekker

What a heaven is love! O what a hell!

Author: Thomas Dekker

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Author: Emily Dickinson

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Author: Clint Eastwood

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Author: Epictetus

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Author: Epictetus

I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

Author: Melissa Etheridge

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

Author: Charles Evers

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Author: Bob Feller

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

Author: Jean Fontaine

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

Author: Marvin Gaye

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

Author: Pam Gems

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

Author: Humphrey Gilbert

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.

Author: Jeff Goldblum

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Author: Emma Goldman

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Author: Robert Hamilton

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Author: Augustus Hare

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.

Author: Gregory Harrison

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.

Author: Gregory Harrison

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Author: Jimi Hendrix

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

Author: Matthew Henry

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.

Author: George Herbert

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

Author: Douglas Horton

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

Author: Jean Ingelow

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.

Author: Mordecai Johnson

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

Author: Lactantius

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

Author: Henry Lodge, Jr.

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

Author: Joe Louis

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Author: John Lubbock

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Author: Martin Luther

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Author: Martin Luther

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

Author: Mercedes McCambridge

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Author: Herman Melville

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

Author: Mencius

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

Author: John Milton

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Author: John Milton

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

Author: Dwight Moody

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

Author: Thomas Moore

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

Author: Thomas More

Not all of those who cry "The poor, the poor!" will enter the kingdom of heaven.

Author: Michael Novak

We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?

Author: Baroness Orczy

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

Author: Beth Orton

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

Author: Joel Osteen

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

Author: Ruth Pitter

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Author: J. Priestley

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Author: Francis Quarles

There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

Author: Maureen Reagan

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

Author: Beah Richards

They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case.

Author: Elliot Richardson

And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.

Author: Pat Robertson

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Author: William Shakespeare

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Author: George Shaw

In journalistic terms, syndication is equivalent to ascending to heaven on a pillar of cloud.

Author: John Skow

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

Author: Goldwin Smith

Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

Author: Logan Smith

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

Author: Sophocles

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Author: Robert Southey

They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

Author: Barbra Streisand

There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

Author: Patricia Sun

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Author: Jonathan Swift

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Author: Jonathan Swift

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Author: Francis Thompson

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

Author: Tina Turner

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.

Author: Lao Tzu

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

Author: Derek Walcott

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

Author: Neale Walsch

They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.

Author: Neale Walsch

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.

Author: Neale Walsch

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.

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

Author: John Webster

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

Author: William Wilberforce

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Author: Elinor Wylie

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

Author: La Young