Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell...

Friedrich Nietzsche

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

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.

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.

Robert Herrick

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.

Jonathan Edwards

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

Laurie Anderson

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

Therese of Lisieux

In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.

Therese of Lisieux

I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

Therese of Lisieux

It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.

Terry Pratchett

This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.

Terry Pratchett

It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers

Terry Pratchett

Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.

Simone de Beauvoir

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

Simone Weil

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

St. Jerome

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

St. Jerome

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

St. Jerome

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven

St. Jerome

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.