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

"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

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

David Hare, Playwright

"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

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

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"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

"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

"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

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

Euripides, Poet

"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"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

"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