Heaven Quotations | Page 3

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

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.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

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.

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

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

We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

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.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

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

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

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.

Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian.

During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be in heaven together, so we might as well learn to get along here because we will have to get along there. God won't have it any other way.

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.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry

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

For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

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

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

We never, ever judge someone on who's going to heaven, hell. That's the Almighty's job,

The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christs glorious body.

I consider the voice a gift from the heavens, and as all the gifts from the heavens, they must be used, but the minute that the heavens call it back then of course I will stop.

The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.

Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.

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.

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

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

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.

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.

Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.

God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.

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

My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.

The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

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.

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

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

I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.

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

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.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

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

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.

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.

When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

I can't imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.

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

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

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

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

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.