Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Schiller

Have faith! where'er thy bark is driven, 'The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, Know this! God rules the host of heaven, The inhabitants of earth.

Jon Bon Jovi

Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.

Johnny Cash

You're so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I shall hear in heaven.

Lucan

He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.

Lucan

As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

There was a reason why there was only a single stairway to heaven, but an entire highway to hell.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

N. T. Wright

Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world

N. T. Wright

Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.

N. T. Wright

Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

John Wycliffe

I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.

William Shakespeare

The heavens themselves, the planets and this centreObserve degree, priority and place.

And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.

And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

John Donne

This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint / My pilgrimage's last mile.

Philip Sidney

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

Philip James Bailey

I cannot be content with less than heaven.

Philip James Bailey

See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.

Philip James Bailey

Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.

Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

Marianne Moore

We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.

Max Lucado

Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought!

Max Lucado

You are heaven's Halley's comet; we have one shot at seeing you shine.

Max Lucado

Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.

Max Lucado

Though we may not be able to see His purpose or His plan, the Lord of heaven is on His throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives.

Max Lucado

When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you.

Maureen O'Hara

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

Matthew Henry

It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.

Matthew Henry

Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.

Matthew Henry

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

Matthew Henry

Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.