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

"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

"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

"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

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"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

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"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

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

Melissa Etheridge, Musician

"Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell"

George A. Moore, Novelist

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"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

"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

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

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"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

"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

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

John Le Carre, Author

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

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

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

Camille Paglia, 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

"PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction"

Hans Bender, Psychologist

"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

"God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

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