Quotes About Heaven

Love, truth, and unselfishness are not merely moral figures of speech, but they form our highest ideal, because in them lies such a manifestation of power. In the first place, a man who can work for five days, or even for five minutes, without any selfish motive whatever, without thinking of future, of heaven

Those who live by the labor of others are taught by religion to practice charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man.

Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice

Most Indian tribes considered the eagle a great and powerful spirit. His courage was admired, his strength envied. The great height to which this bird flew gave evidence that he could reach heaven, and his plumes were said to carry prayers. The Eagle dance is one of the most graceful of all the Indian dances, and the costume is one of the most spectacular of all Southwestern dance costumes. The Eagles usually dance in pairs but there are a few solo dances.

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's 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.

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us

I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

There is no name so sweet on earth, no name so sweet in heaven, The name, before His wondrous birth, to Christ the Savior given.

Something of eternal significance transpired there. Not only was the calendar of the world changed, but heaven itself and eternity were affected.

Stars of heaven, clear and bright, Shine upon this Christmas light, Vaster far than midnight skies Are its timeless mysteries.

Heaven is something that we can easily get excited and thrilled about and look forward to. It will be like Christmas is for children, only it will be the greatest Christmas we've ever had!

•Zuzu Bailey: Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. •George Bailey: That's right, that's right. •George Bailey: Attaboy, Clarence.

Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.

Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

Confidence begets confidence. Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone. Courage in danger is half the battle.

Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, by which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.

I wonder if heaven got a ghetto?

Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.