Quotes About Heaven

A hand rules heaven as a hand rules pity; hands have no tears to flow.

Dark is a way and light is a place, / Heaven that never was / Nor will be ever is always true.

And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind How time has ticked a heaven round the stars.

I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there.

I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs:

to descend from bright heaven to earth, whereon there are shadows because there are hills…

Father, it's Wistala. Wistala." Father grimaced. "You're a star, Wistala — I saw you twinkling beneath dear Irelia last night. You, Auron, and Jizara all in a row. I'll be up there soon. Wait.

The atheist is nearer the Kingdom of Heaven than the hellenist.

It happened like this, if it happened at all. I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs.

He has dreams—not exactly spiritual dreams: but dreams of the tangible and the actual: robust dreams, which take him, not to heaven, but another earth.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven. That is not imagination. No, it kills it.

Gray clouds were charging across tissues of white, which stretched and shredded and tore slowly, until through their final layers there gleamed a hint of the disappearing blue. Summer was retreating. The wind roared, the trees groaned, yet the noise seemed insufficient for those vast operations in heaven. The weather was breaking up, breaking, broken, and it is a sense of the fit rather than of the supernatural that equips such crises with the salvos of angelic artillery.

und verstand nichts, nur dass der Mensch geschaffen worden ist, ohne Hilfe des Himmels Schmerzen und Einsamkeit zu erleiden.

He understood nothing except that man has been created to feel pain and loneliness without help from heaven.

She remembered again that ten square miles are not ten times as wonderful as one square mile, that a thousand square miles are not practically the same as heaven. The phantom of bigness, which London encourages, was laid forever when she paced from the hall at Howard's End to its kitchen and heard the rains run this way and that where the watershed of the roof divided them.

all. I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs; and if I got there I should like my friends to lean out of it, just as they do here.

It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.

A man's reach must exceed his grasp, dear boy, or what the dickens is a heaven for?

No atheism simply falls from heaven.

If, as the Book of Mormon itself teaches, Satan is luring unsuspecting souls into hell by saying it doesn't exist and that they will be able to repent and join the Mormon Church even after they die, then it is clear that Mormonism, which teaches this, is Satans religion. If Mormonism doesn't tell the truth about hell, can its teachings about heaven be trusted? What about the Mormon "heaven"?

Ever since I was a little girl, I was taught that my primary purpose was to become a goddess in heaven so that I could multiply an earth. I wanted that. I wanted to become a goddess with my husband... to be eternally pregnant and look down on an earth and say, "That's mine, and all those babies down there, I had!

Revelation 11:5 goes on to say that the two witnesses will have power to call down fire from heaven.

If Satan can get us to interpret our mission task as populating heaven with as many people as possible, we will resort to going only to those places of receptivity and harvest and neglect doing what is needed to reach the unreached and penetrate the dominions of darkness with the light of the gospel.

No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.