Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo da Vinci

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Lafcadio Hearn

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Ivan Turgenev

I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.

Imelda Marcos

God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

Giordano Bruno

I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.

Ravi Zacharias

One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.

Rajneesh

Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell; when you become alert and conscious, there is the gate of heaven.

Sidney Sheldon

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

Sholem Asch

Through our soul is our contact with heaven.

Ravi Shankar

There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly.

Rajneesh

In the Lotus Sutra, it is said everything is emptiness - this world is empty, hell is empty, heaven is empty, God is empty, everything is emptiness. Emptiness is the nature of all things, nothingness, so be attuned to nothingness and you will achieve.

Rajneesh

Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology.

Rajneesh

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

Rajneesh

God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.

John Owen

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

John Milton

Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.

John Milton

The starry cope Of heaven.

John Milton

The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

John Milton

My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!

John Milton

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

John Milton

Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.

John Milton

What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

Mitch Albom

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

Mitch Albom

We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.

Mitch Albom

-and that is what heaven is for, for understanding your life on Earth.

Mitch Albom

If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.

Mitch Albom

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

Miguel de Cervantes

Heaven's help is better than early rising.

Neil Gaiman

You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.

John Muir

Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

John Webster

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

John Wesley

Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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