Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

John Dryden

The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

John Dryden

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

John Lyly

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

John Locke

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

Katharine Hepburn

I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.

Leonard Cohen

Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder

Laurel Lea

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

Langston Hughes

I wish the rent Was heaven sent.

La Monte Young

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

Julio Cortazar

[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting.

Jules Renard

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Oscar Wilde

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Kathy Acker

After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other

Kanye West

I'm a heaven sent instrument. My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental. That's why I'm instrumental, vibrations is what I'm into.

John Piper

Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

John Piper

heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy

Martin Luther

Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"

Martin Luther

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

Martin Luther

What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

Mark Strand

I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical,

Nick Harkaway

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

Ovid

Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

Oswald Chambers

You can never argue anyone into the Kingdom of Heaven, you cannot argue anyone anywhere. The only result of arguing is to prove to your own mind that you are right and the other fellow wrong. You cannot argue for truth; but immediately Incarnate Truth is presented, a want awakens in the soul which only God can meet.

Jupiter Hammon

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

Jupiter Hammon

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

Julia Quinn

Until you've lived through all that," he said, "don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me... to me..." He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. "This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise.

Juan Rulfo

No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time.

Leontyne Price

If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

R. A. Torrey

I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.

John Armstrong

Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.

Jodi Picoult

Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?

Jodi Picoult

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.