Heaven Quotes - Page 158

I have to keep reminding myself that being famous on earth would be nice but I would rather walk the red carpet in Heaven.

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

As for an eternity in heaven - that would be hell!

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate.

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.

My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.

There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.

I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.

Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God, or the God of the Hindus. What mattered was something deeper and older and more powerful than any such image - it was a concept of goodness based upon the affirmation of life, the turning away from destruction, from the perverse, from man using and abusing man. It was the affirmation of the human and the natural.

I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.

Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.

There is perfect love in heaven!

Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I appear?