Heaven Quotes - page 4

Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds. (Paulo Coelho)
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. View quote
Ayn Rand
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. View quote
Ayn Rand
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. View quote
Thomas Hardy
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. View quote
William Ellery Channing
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the worlds need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need this life is hell. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lap-dogs breathe their last. View quote
Alexander Pope
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue. View quote
Robert Frost
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. (Stephen Hawking)
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night. View quote
John Ruskin
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of the day So, O man as you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. View quote
Ramakrishna
Sincerity is the way of Heaven. View quote
Mencius
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. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It must be so - Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. View quote
Joseph Addison
It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven. (Samuel Rutherford)
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there. View quote
John Dryden
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth. View quote
John Wesley
I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense... View quote
Beatrix Potter
The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis