Quotes About Heaven

If I ever get to heaven, I would first of all seek out Mozart, and only then inquire after Augustine, St. Thomas, Luther, Calvin, and Schleiermacher.

the irreconcilable antitheses of death and life, the world and the kingdom of heaven, and then again to see them both as one, before he can evaluate the concealed power of this unique spirit. For 'this was a man and to be a man means to be a fighter'.

Heaven is the creation inconceivable to man; earth is the creation conceivable to him.

In the so-called Christian State it is true that alienation counts, but not the individual. The only individual who counts, the king, is a being specially distinguished from other individuals, who is also religious and directly connected with heaven, with God. The relations which here prevail are still relations of faith. The religious spirit is therefore not yet really secularized.

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

Each man dreams his own heaven.

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.

Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!

The angels and the saints rejoice at the sight of men on earth who struggle, suffer and labor for the love of Christ.

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.