Heaven Quotes
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The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christs glorious body.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
John Milton
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A noble deed is a step towards heaven.
J. G. Holland
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Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows.
Claude Monet
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.
Owen Feltham
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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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We're drinking and we're dancingbut there's nothing really happening.The place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night.
Leonard Cohen
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For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.
Henry Norris Russell
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Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
Plato
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There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Gallows, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven 
Ambrose Bierce
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Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
William Gurnall
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There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.
Mattie Stepanek
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God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
Desmond Tutu
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Almighty and eternal Lord God, the great Creator of heaven and earth, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; look down from heaven in pity and compassion upon me thy servant, who humbly prostrate myself before thee.
George Washington
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My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Michelangelo
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I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even accusing heaven because It had set down among its laws: Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.
William Butler Yeats
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There can be no doubt that the Virgin Mary is in heaven. How it happened we do not know.
Martin Luther
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When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.
Carolina Herrera
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Please don't miss me too much. Please don't be too sad. Find someone else to love, because you have much love to give and it's a gift that shouldn't be wasted. You , Jesse, were the rose that made my life sweet.I will wait for you in heaven.
Lurlene McDaniel
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The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said, "Even if you turn our country into heaven, we don't want it from you. Just leave us."
Yaroslav Trofimov
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Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings, our home would, through God's answer to prayer, become a little paradise.
Ole Hallesby