Heaven Quotes: Divine Sayings and Heavenly Thoughts

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

Peter Tosh, Musician

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

Mark Twain, Author

"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

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

Mark Twain, Author

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

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

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

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

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

George Canning, Statesman

"Heaven never helps the men who will not act"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"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

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing"

Friedrich Nietzsche, 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

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

Lao Tzu, Author

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Neil Tennant, Musician

"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

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

Camille Paglia, Author

"I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb"

John Pearson, Theologian

"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

"Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell"

Marvin Gaye, Musician

"My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues"

Mark Knopfler, Musician

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

Aulus Persius Flaccus, Poet

"His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice"

John Stott, Clergyman

"Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven"

Sophocles, Author

"It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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