Heaven Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.
Anonymous

If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.
George Bernard Shaw

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Mark Twain

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
George Bernard Shaw

Heaven means to be one with God.
Confucius

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau

Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.
Eskimo Proverb

Probably no invention came more easily to man than Heaven.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Heaven liveth at the feet of mothers.
Muhammad

For observe, that to hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
Vita Sackville-West

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Confucius

If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.
Anonymous

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.
Dean Inge

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary.
Oscar Wilde

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Prayer is the key to Heaven, but faith unlocks the door.
Anonymous

Heaven has a road, but no one travels it. Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.
Chinese Proverb

Heaven, n.: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
Ambrose Bierce (The Devil’s Dictionary)

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

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

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

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
Jonathan Edwards

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Joe Louis

Grant me paradise in this world; I’m not so sure I’ll reach it in the next.
Tintoretto

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.
Christopher Love

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

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein