What Is Heaven Quotes

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.

In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.

When you really dive into the scriptures it says the kingdom of heaven is inside you. You can feel that because of the way Christ dropped it.

The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

If there is a heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.

When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

All arrangements that are carried out between heaven and earth are carried out through angels.

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.

I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway

Little deeds of kindness Little words of love; Help to make earth an Eden Like the heaven above.

Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.

He who did not taste Freedom on Earth, will not know it in Heaven!

The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God.

When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.

If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?

The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.

Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.

We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

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.

The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.

Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

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.

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.

The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.

The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.

Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.

A star on earth - a star in heaven.

Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.