Heaven Quotes - Page 110

We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

Do you know anybody who's come back with a firsthand report on heaven? If you do, let me know. Until then, you'll pardon me if I don't buy it.

... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.

He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.

I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.

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

They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.

Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

Is not the space between Heaven and Earth like a bellows? It is empty, but lacks nothing. The more it moves, the more comes out of it.

What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.

The way of heaven is to help and not harm.

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares about how we are or what we do. ... Religious skeptics often become very bitter towards the end, as did Mark Twain. ... I know why I will become bitter. I will finally realize that I have had it right all along: that I will not see God, that there is no heaven or Judgement Day.

Heaven no longer exists, nor does the earth.

Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens.

After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

Mormons can testify whether I am willing to lay down my life for a Mormon; If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a Mormon I am bold to declare before heaven that I am just as ready to die for a Presbyterian, a baptist or any other denomination.

The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.

I'd rather live forever in Heaven than a place where there's terrorism and hate.