Heaven Quotes: Divine Sayings and Heavenly Thoughts

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die"

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us"

Joseph Priestley, Scientist

"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, Author

"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven"

Mark Twain, Author

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Heaven never helps the men who will not act"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine"

Melissa Etheridge, Musician

"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven"

Aulus Persius Flaccus, Poet

"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven"

Mark Twain, Author

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!"

George Canning, Statesman

"There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!"

Patricia Sun, Author

"Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place"

Robert Bolt, Playwright

"Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell"

George A. Moore, Novelist

"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, Playwright

"Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven"

Lao Tzu, Author

"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

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

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

"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"

Buddha, Leader

"I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book"

John Le Carre, Author

"Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending"

Herman Melville, Novelist

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