Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Corneille

It is the gift of heaven and not of reason.

Pierre Corneille

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

Philip Schaff

The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.

Phillips Brooks

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

Philip Yancey

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

Nathaniel Hawthorne

If we would know what heaven is before we come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirits, and we shall find it there among holy thoughts and feelings.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.

Mother Teresa

Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

George MacDonald

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

Emanuel Swedenborg

This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love

Emanuel Swedenborg

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Emanuel Swedenborg

A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.

John Bunyan

Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.

John Bunyan

And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!

Joel Osteen

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

Jimmy Page

I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.

Lionel Blue

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.

Lincoln Steffens

My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell.

Leslie Nielsen

It doesn't really matter where I go (Heaven or Hell). I'll have plenty of friends in both places.

Lew Wallace

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Levon Helm

Music is the language of heaven.

Joseph Campbell

Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans.

Karl Popper

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

Mother Teresa

The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'

Philip Pullman

And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.

Philip Pullman

We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.

Queen Elizabeth II

For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.

Maggie Stiefvater

I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.

Gustave Flaubert

Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.

Gustave Flaubert

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

Gustave Flaubert

Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.

Gordon Ramsay

Chelsea has always been a foodie heaven and it will never change in that respect.