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Quotes About Heaven

In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.
~ Daniel Defoe
I have another proof that we're going to have food in Heaven! And man did eat angel's food.-Manna! So angels can eat food!
~ David Berg
All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.
~ E. M. Forster
The soul of man was made to walk the skies.
~ Edward Young
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
~ Edward Young
The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.
~ Emma Goldman
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.
~ Ernest Llewellyn Woodward
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.
~ Euripides
Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.
~ Francis of Assisi
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
~ George Chapman
Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.
~ George Herbert
While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.
~ George Washington
Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
~ Matthew McConaughey
One of my problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal - to find it in animals and men, in the heaven and in the hell which together form the world in which we live.
~ Max Beckmann
No man can go to Heaven, but everyman can build one!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.
~ Michael Moore
Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.
~ Richard Steele
No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.
~ Hesiod