Heaven Quotes: Divine Sayings and Heavenly Thoughts (Page 4)

"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven"

"Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather"

Washington Irving, Writer

"Christianity made us think there's one heaven"

Patti Smith, Musician

"The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived"

Michelangelo, Artist

"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness"

Michelangelo, Artist

"Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven"

Michelangelo, Artist

"Sincerity is the way to heaven"

Mencius, Philosopher

"Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not"

Mencius, Philosopher

"As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons"

James Thurber, Comedian

"The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend"

Plautus, Playwright

"Human nature is what Heaven supplies"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"God owns heaven but He craves the earth"

Anne Sexton, Poet

"Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God"

William Howard Taft, President

"In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

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