Heaven Quotes - Page 96

The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.

Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.

If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of that joy. ... I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.

Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak grows from the acorn, or the harvest from the scattered grain. It is not that love to Christ merits heaven; it does far better, it makes heaven. It is, as it were, the organ of sensation that takes note of heaven's blessedness.

Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.

The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.

Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.