Heaven Quotes
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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
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... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears. So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, I’m afraid. There is no use in mourning one such as I, dearest... -Simon to Lucy in a letter before the last duel.
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I know no surer way of shaking off the dreary crust formed about the soul by the trying to do one’s duty or the patient enduring of having somebody else’s duty done to one, than going out alone, either at the bright beginning of the day, when the earth is still unsoiled by the feet of the strenuous and only God is abroad; or in the evening, when the hush has come, out to the blessed stars, and looking up at them wonder at the meanness of the day just past, at the worthlessness of the things one has struggled for, at the folly of having been so angry, and so restless, and so much afraid. Nothing focusses life more exactly than a little while alone at night with the stars. What are perfunctory bedroom prayers hurried through in an atmosphere of blankets, to this deep abasement of the spirit before the majesty of heaven? And as a consecration of what should be yet one more happy day, of what value are those hasty morning devotions.
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Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.
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There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.
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Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.
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My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.
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To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.
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Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
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God loves you as do I and no matter what physical characteristics that differ from each and every one of us, we are but one family under the heavens.
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Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.
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I guess that all figures into my approach because once I start hearing the imagination land stuff that's my new phrase now I guess I tend to tune out or start laughing at it like, "Haha, you guys really believe there is a heaven."
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Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.
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A moment of kindness can produce a mood of harmony between heaven and earth. Purity of heart can leave a fine example for a hundred generations.
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Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with ‘Thy will be done’ (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).
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If there is a heaven, it must be here on earth because the earth is so beautiful.
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The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.
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Our thoughts are heard in heaven.
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“There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven.
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The will is that which has all power; it makes heaven and it makes hell: for there is no hell but where the will of the creature is turned from God, nor any heaven but where the will of the creature worketh with God.
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
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Steve Carell and Tina Fey are a match made in comedy heaven. They're perfect.
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Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
