Heaven Quotes
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Wisdom sits aloneTopmost in Heaven.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
John Donne
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Persius
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
Paracelsus
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Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.
P. J. O'Rourke
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They married well because the marriage-place Was what they loved. It was neither heaven nor hell. They were love’s characters come face to face.
Wallace Stevens
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
George Berkeley
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I've not given them (the poor people of Bihar) heaven, but I've given them a voice.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
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If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.
Tamsin Greig
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Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.
N. T. Wright
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Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
J. G. Holland
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Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,Daughter of Elysium!Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancingGoddess, to thy shrine we come.Thy sweet magic brings togetherWhat stern Custom spreads afar;All men become brothersWhere thy happy wing-beats are.
Friedrich Schiller
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The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
D. A. Carson
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Some might say that sunshine follows thunder. Go and tell it to the man who cannot shine. Some might say that we should never ponder. On our thoughts today cos they will sway over time. Some might say they don't believe in heaven. Go and tell it to the man who lives in hellSome might say you get what you've been givenIf you don't get yours I won't get mine as well.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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Possibly there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your psychiatry, Mr. Garth.
Garrett Fort
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I don't discriminate when it comes to melon. I'm very open-minded. I really don't mind; I can't say I like any one better than the other. You can put them all in! A little melon mix salad, and I'm just in heaven.
Paolo Nutini
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So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad.
Deborah Cox
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I am not a person of faith. I'm a Catholic. I was brought up Catholic, but I'm not a church-going sort of girl. I'm very spiritual. I pray every night. I believe in Heaven and Hell, but I'm not a person that goes to church, like, every Sunday.
Cristina Saralegui
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Working on 'Parks' was like heaven because everyone there was just intimidatingly intelligent and funny, and we would have these hilarious debates about really tangential things. It was inspiring because I felt really challenged to be my best.
Chelsea Peretti
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If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to the cross which he himself bore. But he mildly smiles upon your hate: "The truth will prevail, even if the bearer falls; the faith will live, for I give my life ... and stand tall at the cross for all warriors of the world.
Baldur von Schirach
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We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be heaven!
Joshua Chamberlain
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Samuel Butler
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Jesus believed that God’s will being done on earth as in heaven was God’s chief priority.
Jeffery A. Cook Alabama
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There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Jean Paul