Heaven Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Heaven and the spirit world are much more real, beautiful and lasting than the world which you can see with your natural eyes at this very moment.
David Brandt Berg

Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
Michelangelo

I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
Emily Bronte

I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.
Emily Dickinson

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.
Barbara Walters

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare

God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!
Caryll Houselander (This War is the Passion)

Heaven is a beautiful place to be, full of beautiful people having a beautiful time!
David Brandt Berg

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

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
Lucretius

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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.
Li Po

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.
Billy Graham

My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson

The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.
George Washington

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Oprah Winfrey

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Thomas Moore (Come Ye Disconsolate)

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

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Work and pray, live on hay,
You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
Joe Hill

Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation.
Bahá’u'lláh

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

Men and women will retain their sex in heaven.
Pope John Paul II

When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Christopher Marlowe

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

Heaven — the treasury of everlasting life.
William Shakespeare

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing.
Martin Buber

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
Alphonse De Lamartine