What Is Heaven Quotes

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth.

The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven.

Each man dreams his own heaven.

Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.

The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.

Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.

Health is my expected heaven.

Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.

Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?

Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

The stars remind us every night that we have the opportunity to create heaven on earth. from The Expected One

Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate...make the devil wait.

Heaven? Floating about with everyone you ever knew for eternity? Me family does me 'ed in after one day at xmas, I'd rather be mush.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards.

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.