Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikos Kazantzakis

Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.

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.

Meg Cabot

Zach had rushed down to rescue me without remembering to put a shirt on...Maybe I had died and gone to heaven.

P. J. O'Rourke

Every pleasure you forgoe on Earth is a pleasure you won't get in heaven.

Plautus

It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.

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.

Max Lucado

Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought!

Max Lucado

You are heaven's Halley's comet; we have one shot at seeing you shine.

Max Lucado

Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.

Max Lucado

Though we may not be able to see His purpose or His plan, the Lord of heaven is on His throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives.

Max Lucado

When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you.

Maureen O'Hara

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

Matthew Henry

It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.

Matthew Henry

Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.

Matthew Henry

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

Matthew Henry

Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.

Matthew Henry

All this and heaven too.

Marilyn Manson

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

Merry Clayton

I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.

Mencius

By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

Theodore Parker

I look through the grave into heaven.

Theodore L. Cuyler

In heaven, knowledge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified soul.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.