Heaven Quotes
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Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal, or heaven cannot heal, for the earth as seen in the clean wilds of the mountains is about as divine as anything the heart of man can conceive!
John Muir
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Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself.
Sophocles
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When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
John Foxe
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The warrior's gift is to willingly storm Hell that Heaven may remain unstained.
Eva Pigford
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Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.
Aldo Leopold
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If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.
Lao Tzu
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My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.
Kelly Slater
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The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.
F. R. Scott
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All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.
William Shakespeare
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You will probably have what is called a Christian Church here; they will not admit that we are Christians, but they cannot think us further from the plan of salvation as revealed from heaven than we know them to be, so we are even on that ground, as far as it goes.
Brigham Young
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
Jack Kerouac
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I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important to me. Eventually, that turned into agnosticism, which became atheism.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.
John Muir
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Heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled.
Lao Tzu
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
Jonathan Edwards
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I cannot be content with less than heaven;Living, and comprehensive of all life.Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,Star-throned.
Philip James Bailey
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God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.
William Blake
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In Heaven, I believe my dad is somewhere doing something nice. I feel I've been too lucky to travel this far without somebody guiding me.
Katherine Jenkins
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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
John Lubbock
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Every one who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
John Milton
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When I'm creating, that's my heaven. If I haven't designed something every day, it is a failed day - that's how much I love fashion.
Peter Nygard
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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
Charles Dickens
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Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
J. C. Ryle