Heaven Quotes
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I hope when I'm 80 that I get to Heaven and God doesn't recognise me.
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Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.
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Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
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Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
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You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.
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The sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed alway.
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Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
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In heaven, all ordinary thought is higher and more melodious than Milton's song. Then, would he add another verse to any strain that he had left unfinished here?
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But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.
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The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.
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The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.
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And in the morning when the sun rise.Look in the water, see the blue sky.As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.
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The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find untrue All this I have believed and rested on, Forever vanished, like a vision gone Out into the night. Alas, how few There are who strike in us a chord we knew Existed, but so seldom heard its tone We tremble at the half-forgotten sound. The world is full of rude awakenings And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground, Yet still our human longing vainly clings To a belief in beauty through all wrongs. O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!
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And she arose, and in that darkening room Stood lonely as a spirit of the night - Stood calm and fearless in the gathered night - And raised her eyes to heaven. There were tears Upon her face, but in her heart was peace. Peace that the world nor gives nor takes away!
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'Tis immortality to die aspiring,As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
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Worship with fulness of heart the weak memory of heaven!It cannot traceEither your name or your faceNobody knows you're still living.
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When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'
