Heaven Quotes - Page 103

A happy family is but an ealier heaven.

It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.

If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.

I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you.

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

Those who love are but one step from heaven.

His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.

We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to occupy them save playing a harp and incessantly singing.

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

Nobody here could ever talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the other side of death, and on this side flourished the injustices, the cruelties, the meanness that elsewhere people so cleverly hushed up. Here you could love human beings nearly as God loved them, knowing the worst: you didn't love a pose, a pretty dress, a sentiment artfully assumed.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

Heaven and hell is right now, right at this moment. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

Holy angel, in Heaven blessed, My spirit longs with thee to rest

Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear. No, heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just for us to find it here.

And God 'sits in the heavens and laughs' at the proud who pretend to be more than they are.

By Mary, God descended from Heaven into the world, so that by her men might ascend from earth into Heaven.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.