Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Swift

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Khalil Gibran

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

Kerry Packer

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

Jonathan Rosen

The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.

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.

Omar Khayyam

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

Olivia Holt

I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.

Ellen G. White

Heaven is all health.

Ellen G. White

The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed; the righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted. The first is our title to heaven, the second is our fitness for heaven.

Ellen G. White

If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.

Emily Bronte

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

Emily Bronte

If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

Emily Dickinson

Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.

Emily Dickinson

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

Emily Dickinson

So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.

Emanuel Swedenborg

In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.

Emil Zatopek

Sri Chinmoy brings Heaven to me. He inspires everyone to be happy. He deserves the biggest gold medal.

Ellis Peters

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

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.

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.

William Williams

Sleep!There is hunting in heaven --Sleep safe till tomorrow.