Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bo Sanchez

Heaven is His choice for you. But He won't force you to go there if you don't want to.

William Wordsworth

Type of the wise who soar but never roam;True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

William Shakespeare

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

William Shakespeare

Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth

William Shakespeare

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.

Bertrand Russell

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.

Bertrand Russell

[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

Bertrand Russell

All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

William Shakespeare

Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

William Shakespeare

And how his audit stands who knows, save Heaven?

William Shakespeare

Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.

William Shakespeare

Patch up thine old body for heaven.

William Shakespeare

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

William Shakespeare

Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!

William Shakespeare

Can we outrun the heavens?

Robert Green Ingersoll

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without 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.

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

And, all his prospects brightening to the last, / His heaven commences ere the world be past!

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.

Jorge Luis Borges

May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.

Joni Eareckson Tada

God lets us continue to feel much of sin's sting through suffering while we're heading for heaven. This constantly reminds us of what we're being delivered from; exposing sin for the poison it is.