Heaven Quotes - Page 62

It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition.

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

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!

Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

You can see the cruelest part of the world, the cruelest part. But then on the other side, you see the most beautiful part. Do you know? It's like you go from one extreme to the next. And they're both worth it because you wouldn't see the one without the other one. But that cruel part is damn cruel and you'll never forget it. But that heaven is heaven.

If you could work your way to heaven, you would said look what I did, I got myself here by my good works. The only way you are going to make it is to come to that Cross.

If there are any tears shed in heaven, it will be because we prayed so little.

The most thrilling thing about heaven is that Jesus Christ will be there. I will see Him face to face. Jesus Christ will meet us at the end of life's journey.

[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

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

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven

There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco.

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

The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.

Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.