Quotes About Heaven

Heaven?s gate is narrow and minute,* It cannot be perceived by foolish men, Blinded by vain illusions of the world. E?en the clear-sighted, who discern the way And seek to enter, find the portal barred And hard to be unlocked. Its massive bolts Are pride and passion, avarice and lust.

Rich presents, though profusely given, Are not so dear to righteous Heaven As gifts by honest gains supplied, Though small, which faith hath sanctified.

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss. And the poem is one of its consolation prizes. One of the qualities of the winds, north or south

New York was heaven to me. And Harlem was Seventh Heaven.

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

A journey on a day that you could say was my idea of heaven.

Der Christ hat sein Betätigungsfeld in der Welt. Hier soll er anfassen, mitschaffen und wirken, hier den Willen Gottes tun. Und darum ist der Christ nicht resignierter Pessimist, sondern einer, der freilich von der Welt weniger hofft – die Welt vergeht – der aber von Gott alles erhofft und darum also schon in der Welt freudig und heiter ist.

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

Hanged Man is the human spirit which is suspended from heaven by a single thread. Wisdom, not death, is the reward for this voluntary sacrifice during which the human soul, suspended above the world of illusion, and meditating upon its unreality, is rewarded by the achievement of self-realization.

Esoterically, the Hanged Man is the human spirit which is suspended from heaven by a single thread. Wisdom, not death, is the reward for this voluntary sacrifice during which the human soul, suspended above the world of illusion, and meditating upon its unreality, is rewarded by the achievement of self-realization.

With love you could persuade a Pathan to go to Hell, but by force you couldn't even take him to Heaven.

The pure Yang forms the heaven, and the turbid Yin forms the earth. The Qi of the earth ascends and turns into clouds, while the Qi of the heaven turns into rain.

Os poetas são valiosíssimos aliados, cujo testemunho deve estimar-se em alto grau, pois costumam conhecer muitas coisas existentes no céu e na terra, que a nossa filosofia nem sequer suspeita. Na psicologia, sobretudo, encontram-se homens vulgares muito acima de nós, pois bebem na fonte a que não conseguimos ainda fazer chegar a ciência.

When I am preparing for Holy Communion, I picture my soul as a piece of land and I beg the Blessed Virgin to remove from it any rubbish that would prevent it [80r°] from being free; then I ask her to set up a huge tent worthy of heaven, adorning it with her own jewelry; finally, I invite all the angels and saints to come and conduct a magnificent concert there. It seems to me that when Jesus descends into my heart He is content to find Himself so well received and I, too, [5]am content.

But the joy I was experiencing was calm, the lightest breeze did not undulate the quiet waters upon which my little boat was floating and no cloud darkened my blue heaven.

Amen, I say to you, unless you be converted and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Mt 18:3).

For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy; finally, it is something [25v°] great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.

I had no need to raise my head to see and, in fact, no longer raised it but to contemplate heaven which to me was filled with joy. All my trials had come to an end and the winter of my soul had passed on [20]forever.

Earth again seemed a sad place and I understood that in heaven alone joy will be without any clouds.

I longed for the everlasting repose of heaven, that never-ending Sunday of the fatherland!

only the day of the first, the unique, [36r°] the eternal Communion of Heaven will be endless!

all of the goods of earth and heaven are meant to help us on the way to salvation, but they can become obstacles if we relate to them with possessiveness.