Heaven Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 8
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu
What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.
Mark Twain
Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Epictetus
A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
Charles R. Swindoll
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
Adolf Hitler
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Robert Green Ingersoll
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William Shakespeare
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
Matthew
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
H. G. Wells
If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.
Mercedes McCambridge
You grow to heaven. You don’t go to heaven.
Edgar Cayce
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Jonathan Swift
Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.
Mark Twain
If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.
Morihei Ueshiba
Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
Franz Kafka
If there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven or a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but it will be a heaven of blackred roses my father will be(deep like a rose tall like a rose) standing near my swaying over her (silent) with eyes which are really petals and see nothing with the face of a poet really which is a flower and not a face with hands which whisper This is my beloved my (suddenly in sunlight he will bow, and the whole garden will bow)
E. E. Cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings)
In Heaven, you’re going to get just about whatever you want. Heaven’s the place where all your heart’s desires will be fulfilled — if they’re good ones. Put in your order now!
David Brandt Berg
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
Jupiter Hammon
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Miguel De Cervantes
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
Edwin Louis Cole
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
John Updike
Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
Beah Richards
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Robert Browning
I’m terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.
Maureen O’Hara
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
Francis Thompson
Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
George William Russell
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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