Heaven Quotes: Divine Sayings and Heavenly Thoughts (Page 2)

"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

"The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind"

John Burroughs, Author

"Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man"

Johnny Cash, Musician

"If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time"

Gary Player, Athlete

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

Marvin Gaye, Musician

"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, Statesman

"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, Clergyman

"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

"Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage"

John Osborne, Playwright

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

Mark Knopfler, Musician

"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

"Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth"

David Hare, Playwright

"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

"The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete"

Lao Tzu, Author

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"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

"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"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, Criminal

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

Mark Twain, Author

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love"

Euripides, Poet

"Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars"

Victor Hugo, Author

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

Epictetus, Philosopher

"As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved"

Cicero, Philosopher