What Is Heaven Quotes

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.

Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.

All these books are published in Heaven.

Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven.

There are no freelance Christians; there is no solo-flying to heaven.

This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.

Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.

Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

She got to go to heaven four days early.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

We will never walk away from Israel ... Many of us are worried about heaven. Heaven is your reward. You are here as soldiers to take on the enemy.

If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!

The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree

Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.

Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue.

If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our “capacity to receive” a blessed and sanctified nature.

For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.