Heaven Quotes - Page 86

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

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

There is something about keeping Him divine that keeps Him distant, packaged, predictable. But don't do it. For heaven's sake, don't. Let Him be as human as He intended to be. Let Him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let Him in can He pull us out.

All this and heaven too.

We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance.

Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.

When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

Heaven smiles upon those who share its gifts.

Heaven will ask things of you at some point, perhaps small things at first. You must be ready.

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.

The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die.

Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? ...there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth.

When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.

God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!