Heaven Quotes

"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller"

John Milton, Poet

"The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven"

John Milton, Poet

"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven"

John Milton, Poet

"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found"

Moliere, Playwright

"Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"There is only one thing keeping us from Heaven on earth - We can't believe it"

Patricia Sun, Author

"I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered"

Julie Christie, Actress

"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof"

Jean Paul, Author

"Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven"

George Sand, Novelist

"Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing"

John Webster, Playwright

"Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks"

David Garrick, Actor

"Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

"Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters"

Alexander the Great, Leader

"The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

"Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves"

Robert Quillen, Journalist

"I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth"

Liza Minnelli, Actress

"To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals"

Ellis Peters, Author

"When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high"

Hideki Tojo, Soldier

"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that"

George Wald, Scientist

"The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven"

Thomas More, Author

"And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

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