Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Henry Newman

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

John Henry Newman

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

John Donne

The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

John Donne

I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.

John Donne

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

John Calvin

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

James Thomas Fields

Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire.

James Thurber

Americans want to go to heaven without dying.

James Montgomery

There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

James Lipton

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

James M. Barrie

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

Jimi Hendrix

This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . .

Emmanuel Jal

Music is actually where I see heaven.

Emma Goldman

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Lord Byron

In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

Maimonides

First Theory . There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus ...

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

Mahatma Gandhi

Both heaven and hell are within us.

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.

Henry Van Dyke

Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

Henry Norris Russell

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.