Quotes About Heaven

Don't worry about what you ought to do. Worry about loving. Don't interrogate heaven repeatedly and uselessly saying, "What course of action should I pursue?" Concentrate on loving instead. And by loving you will find out what is for you. Loving, you will listen to the Voice. Loving, you will find peace.

and I repeat again St. Augustine's words: "Love and do as you will." Don't worry about what you ought to do. Worry about loving. Don't interrogate heaven repeatedly and uselessly saying, "What course of action should I pursue?" Concentrate on loving instead. And by loving you will find out what is for you. Loving, you will listen to the Voice. Loving, you will find peace.

The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring himself to reply. Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not yet learned to stifle with words.

The echo of voices and old radios rose through these canyons of poverty, but only as far as the rooftops. The voice of the Raval never reaches heaven.

Sind Sie vom Himmel?', fragte sie. 'Machen Sie sich keine Illusionen. Ich bin aus Matadepera.

Clara mochte schlecht spielen, nicht im Takt, und bei der Hälfte der Noten danebengreifen, für mich aber klang ihre Serenade wundervoll, und sie mit einem angedeuteten Lächeln und zur Seite geneigten Kopf aufrecht vor den Tasten sitzen zu sehen erschien mit wir eine Vision des Himmels.

The only revenge left for you then will be to steal from life the pleasure of firm and passionate flesh--a pleasure that evaporates faster than good intentions and is the nearest thing to heaven you will find in this stinking world where everything decays, beginning with beauty and ending with memory.

Rest now, my friend. Heaven can wait. And hell is too small for you.

Clara played badly, with no sense of rhythm and mistaking half the notes, but to me her serenade was liquid heaven.

Heaven can wait. And hell is too small for you.

the human and the divine are balanced across a dazzling equation: man's creation of God being exactly equal to God's creation of man, one unified mind bending like a snake around the curve of earth and heaven.

Since her porch had south, east, and west windows, Harriett had become a sunrise and sunset collector. She gathered colors in her heart: magenta and grape one evening, surpassed by sparkly gold or fluffy pink the next. Would there be color in Heaven? Would she hear the laughter of children there?

In the 1950s, heaven was a good place to stash people you weren't going to worry about anymore.

What an inspiring book. Thank heaven Lee Thornton decided to share her remarkable life story with us. Lee's book is a blessing as well as a terrific read.

any choice made from faith has the full power of heaven behind it—which is why "faith the size of a mustard seed can move a mountain.

A match made in heaven? He chuckled. Probably not in heaven but right now you can take me there and we'll check it out. She smiled.

he conned his way past Saint Peter at the pearly gates, then the angels best lock down those streets of gold.

Saint Peter could get rid of his little black book with the names of the worthy written in it. Aunt Gert would arrive with a new and updated version tucked under her arm.

No," she said, "she wanted to have used every bit of her energy, every second of her time, and have given every drop of her love away so that when she got to heaven, what had been her on this earth was all finished and done with.

Drag your feet a little. Heaven is timeless

If the hand of God had come down from heaven and smacked him dead, James could not have been more surprised. He waited, certain he had misunderstood.

So I'm beginning to think that when I'm fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety years old I still won't be any closer to being wise and knowledgeable. Perhaps people on their deathbeds, who have had long, long lives, seen it all, travelled the world, have had kids, been through their own personal traumas, beaten their demons and learned the harsh lessons of life will be thinking : God, people in heaven must really know it all.

I wish that your journey will be to a light not only for yourself but for all of us. I wish that it will be a journey for the sake of heaven. I give you my blessing, Asher Lev.

Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.