Heaven Quotations | Page 4

I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

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

I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

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

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

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

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

I cook a mean Sunday lunch. My idea of Heaven is a lunch outside on a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon. It's the time to gather everyone together.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

I don't believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable.

We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven.

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

No matter how I feel, I get up, dress up, and show up for life. When I do, the day always serves up more than I could have hoped for. Each day truly is a slice of heaven. Some days the slices are just smaller than others.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

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

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

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

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

There's no way to get around the fact that Jesus is the only way to Heaven, and He is so good that He exchanged His place in Heaven to come suffer on a cross for humanity and rose to set us free from eternal life in Hell.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'

Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.

Watching the sun rise over the ocean is making it easy for me to wake up and get out of bed. I'm not jumping up to take a shower or go to work. I'm jumping up to greet the majesty of the day, of God, of me. The majesty reminds me that God's in his heaven ... and so am I. And, heaven is a lovely place to start the day, a lovely place to live.

We believe we're ready for them, ... We wanted to make sure we were ready before anybody came. We want the people of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County to welcome them as folks who have been through hell in the last week. We want to show them a little bit of Western Pennsylvania heaven when they get here.

We're going to have to look closely at how we better address what happened on 9-11 and to be better prepared in the event, heaven forbid, something like this were to occur again,

Prostitutes go to heaven. It's their clients that go to hell.

As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved.

...Terry Jackson, who is the Miami Herald's automotive writer and TV critic. That's correct: This man gets paid to drive new cars AND watch television. If he ever dies and goes to heaven, it's going to be a big let down.

So, how do you get back to heaven? To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it. You don't have to believe everything your thoughts tell you. Just become familiar with the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. It may seem strange at first to get to know yourself in this way, but becoming familiar with your stressful thoughts will show you the way home to everything you need.

The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.

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.

Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.

If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.

Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.

Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?

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.

We want people to enjoy life. Jess is probably looking down from heaven and smiling.

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'

Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle.

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.

Let me be clear that I'm not God so I can't tell you who is and isn't going to heaven. What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer, I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable.

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are. They're supposed to be gigantic explosions and they're just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn't go back.

No matter what the circumstances, we Christians should keep our heads. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of a sound mind. It is a dismal thing to see a son of heaven cringe in terror before the sons of earth.

A Christian expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of another.

If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, 'I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.'

When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.

Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used.

Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most Ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the first cause, but which we call our Father which art in heaven.

All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.

He fills heaven and earth as the ocean fills the bucket that is submerged in it, and as the ocean surrounds the bucket so does God in the universe He fills. "The heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee." God is not contained: He contains.

Whoever will listen will hear the speaking heaven. This is definitely not the hour when men take kindly to an exhortation to listen, for listening is not today a part of popular religion. We are at the opposite end of the pole from there. Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.