What Is Heaven Quotes

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

The sweetest music this side of heaven.

Jesus took His place in a manger so that we might have a home in Heaven.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.

Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven.

We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

But how do you wait for heaven And who has that much time And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know, that you were born, you were born to fly

The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away?

Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.

Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?

Heav'n is not always got by running.

The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It's about God who wants to give to you.

As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me.

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.

Those skilled in attack move as from above the nine-fold heavens. Thus they are capable both of protecting themselves and of gaining complete victory.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.

A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.

The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.

Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!