Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Lee Burke

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

James Joyce

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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.

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.

John Donne

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

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.

John Quincy Adams

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

John Owen

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

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.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.

Mao Zedong

There is turmoil under the heavens. The prospects are excellent.

Mao Zedong

There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent.

Mao Zedong

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.

John Flavel

A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven into us, Col. 2: 2, 3.

John Flavel

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

Jonathan Edwards

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.