Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

Johannes Tauler

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

Johannes Kepler

I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'

John Adams

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

Genghis Khan

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you

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.

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.

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.

Franklin Graham

And in eternity, faith is the only currency that counts.

Francois Fenelon

The kingdom of God which is within us consists in our willing whatever God wills, always, in every thing, and without reservation; and thus His kingdom comes; for His will is then done as it is in heaven, since we will nothing but what is dictated by His sovereign pleasure.

Francois Fenelon

We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.

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.

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.