Heaven Quotes

"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven"

"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, Author

"I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans"

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

"If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there"

Martin Luther, Professor

"If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there"

Martin Luther, Professor

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

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there"

Andrew Jackson, President

"Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist"

William Blake, Poet

"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, Poet

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour"

William Blake, Poet

"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven"

John Donne, Poet

"Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"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, Leader

"Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue"

David Hume, Philosopher

"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons"

James Thurber, Comedian

"I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived"

Michelangelo, Artist