Heaven Quotes: Divine Sayings and Heavenly Thoughts (Page 8)

"To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here"

"Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow"

"I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven"

Dave Grohl, Musician

"Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue"

Francis Quarles, Poet

"For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven"

Edward Carpenter, Activist

"I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven"

Gregory Harrison, Actor

"Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway"

Dom DeLuise, Actor

"An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven"

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Clergyman

"I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do"

George Linnaeus Banks, Writer

"God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven"

Bill Hybels, Clergyman

"To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!"

Edmund Waller, Poet

"Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence"

Bill Hybels, Clergyman

"Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place"

Edmund Spenser

"I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know"

Joel Osteen, Clergyman

"I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell"

Joel Osteen, Clergyman

"But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven"

Tryon Edwards, Theologian

"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring"

James Whistler, Artist

"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven"

Tryon Edwards, Theologian

"Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself"

Jeremy Taylor, Clergyman

"King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France"

Joan of Arc, Celebrity

"It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it"

Stephen Leacock, Economist

"When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why"

Dinah Maria Mulock, Novelist

"God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease"

Frank Knox, Public Servant

"I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right"

Charles Evers, Activist

"I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?"

Brian Celio, Novelist

"For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him"

William Barclay, Theologian

"I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means"

Barbara Walters, Journalist

"The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell"

John Jakes, Writer

"To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven"

Charles V, Royalty

"What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself"

Catherine Crowe, Writer

"It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee"

Girolamo Savonarola, Clergyman

"We've had some really good guest stars. But I have to go with Alec Baldwin as my favorite. He is so neat and such a movie star. He's handsome and quirky. I was in heaven the week he was on the set"

Nikki Cox, Actress

"I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven"

Josephine Baker, Dancer

"Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter"

Thomas Brooks

"It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also"

Robert Southey, Poet

"Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime"

Vittorio Alfieri, Dramatist

"May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven"

Thomas Monaghan, Soldier

"Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated"

Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady

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