What Is Heaven Quotes

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

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

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

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).]

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

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

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.

Each man dreams his own heaven.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

If you have been healed or saved or blessed through TBN and have not contributed to (the) station, you are robbing God and will lose your reward in heaven.

God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms.

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.

Sing and your hell is heaven, your heaven less hell.

If we reconstructed human spirituality painstakingly, we would end up with a mangnificent tree whose branches go in so many directions, yet all trying to touch the heavens.

Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?