Heaven Quotes

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa

Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)

Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven;
a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
- Omar Khayyam

Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham

There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven

It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven is within us, and we experience it
to the degree that we become conscious of it.
- Ernest Holmes

Home interprets heaven.
Home is heaven for beginners.
- Charles Henry Parkhurst

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven;
it is my inheritance,
I suppose.
- Elinor Wylie

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
- Plautus

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
- Boethius

The things that have acquired unity are these:
Heaven by unity has become clear;
Earth by unity has become steady;
The Spirit by unity has become spiritual;
The Valley by unity has become full;
All things by unity have come into existence.
- Lao Tzu

One does not need buildings, money, power,
or status to practice the Art of Peace.
Heaven is right where you are standing,
and that is the place to train.
- Morihei Ueshiba

Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius

To see the world in a grain of sand,
and to see heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hands,
and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
- William Congreve

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms,
the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven,
and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
- Akhenaton

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to
heaven on flowery beds of ease.
- Frank Knox

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in.
Aim at earth and you get neither.
- C. S. Lewis

Love him and let him love you.
Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
- James A. Baldwin

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary,
because heaven has granted me no offspring.
- James Whistler

Without stirring abroad,
One can know the whole world;
Without looking out of the window,
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes, The less one knows.
- Lao Tzu

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
- Ken Olsen

The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- Henry David Thoreau

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,
going and coming like ourselves,
traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day,
and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John Muir

We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned,
elusive Pimpernel?
- Baroness Orczy

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody
to reproach us for being black,
or for being slaves.
- Jupiter Hammon

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is,
since upon that all the other things depend.
- Emanuel Swedenborg

I decided I was going to be in love.
I was going to give it everything I had.
It was like heaven on that ranch.
I don't know why we broke up.
We never fought.
- Carrie Snodgress

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates
of heaven and God says to me,
just a minute.
- Maureen O'Hara

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans,
finding our failures were successes.
- Amos Bronson Alcott

Pennies do not come from heaven.
They have to be earned here on earth.
- Margaret Thatcher

Free will carried many a soul to hell,
but never a soul to heaven.
- Charles Spurgeon

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act,
or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
- Robert Quillen

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there;
and it's an inn on the right road.
- Ruth Pitter

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic,
in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to
heaven than go to purgatory.
- Charles Spurgeon

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human
heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven,
and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
- Lydia M. Child

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven...
I have the devil in me!
If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!
- Jerry Lee Lewis

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it,
is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable
of receiving in this life.
- Richard Steele

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell.
It isn't created to take you to heaven.
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world;
it is more,
it is the history of earth and of heaven.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there -
And we will stay on earth -
Which is sometimes so pretty.
- Jacques Prevert

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless
he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
- George Orwell

Ye stars!
which are the poetry of heaven!
- Lord Byron

Heaven and earth!
How is it that bodies join but never meet?
- Beah Richards

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like,
because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.
- Mattie Stepanek

I've watched my duty, straight an' true,
an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view,
An' part steered clear of hell.
- Will Carleton

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
- Robert Browning

Whether you come from heaven or hell,
what does it matter, O Beauty!
- Charles Baudelaire

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda,
one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an
extremely wretched life as paradise.
- Adolf Hitler

Faith without works is like a bird without wings;
though she may hop with her companions on earth,
yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
- Francis Beaumont

By doing good with his money, a man,
as it were,
stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass,
current for the merchandise of heaven.
- John Rutledge

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors;
it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
- Evelyn Waugh

I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven,
does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?
- Brian Celio

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
- Christian Nestell Bovee

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