What Is Heaven Quotes

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.

It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

To live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.

Stars of heaven, clear and bright, Shine upon this Christmas light, Vaster far than midnight skies Are its timeless mysteries.

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.

I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.

The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.

I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I'm surrounded by angels, and I call them my best friends

Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

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

She got to go to heaven four days early.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

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

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

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

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