Quotes About Heaven

Samuel Clemens put it: Where she was, there was Eden. Omar phrased it: -thou beside me in the wilderness, ah wilderness were paradise enow. Browning termed it Summum Bonum. All were asserting the same great truth, which is for me: Heaven is where Margrethe is.

the soap that washes cleaner, is packed with vitamins, and improves your chances of Heaven, not to mention its rich creamy lather, finer ingredients, and refusal to take the Fifth Amendment.

I could not make him understand that Heaven was not Heaven to me without Margrethe

Heaven and skid row are separated only by an act of consciousness.

William Blake said we should go to heaven for form and to hell for energy — and marry the two. When we can face our inner heaven and our inner hell, this is the highest form of creativity.

To reconcile so great a span as heaven and earth is beyond our ordinary way of seeing; generally, two irreconcilable opposites (guilty and need) make neurotic structure in us. It takes a poet — or the poet in us — to overlap such a pair and make a sublime whole of them.

Susan laughed. I always loved the sound of her laughter. And to have caused it was worth the west side of heaven.

My whole life long I learn'd to love, This hour my utmost art I prove. And speak my passion—— heaven or hell? She will not give me heaven? 'Tis well!

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?

I find earth not gray but rosy; Heaven not grim but fair of hue. Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; Do I stand and stare? All's blue.

O poder do Homem deve exceder o seu alcance. Senão, para que serviria o céu?

Dearest father in heaven, bless this child and bless this day of new beginnings. Smile upon this child and surround this child, Lord, with the soft mantle of your love. Teach this child to follow in your footsteps, and to live life in the ways of love, faith, hope, and charity.

They're fucking crosses. Just stick them in the ground. If there's a heaven they're already there. If not… it doesn't matter if the crosses are nice or not.

Religion was all about getting dumbasses to line up and sign up, making people pay today for heaven tomorrow.

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

Fragmentary Blue Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue? Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)-- Though some savants make earth include the sky; And blue so far above us comes so high, It only gives our wish for blue a whet.

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those Not in position to look too close.

Our sacrifice—the best we have to offer, And not our worst nor second best, our best, Our very best, our lives laid down like Jonah's Our lives laid down in war and peace—may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. 'May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call 'the mandate of heaven', but life for the peasant changes little.

This is Ian. He's no' usually speechless. Or so well dressed. -Conner I shouldna wear my best clothes to meet an angel from heaven? -Ian You look very nice, I love your shirt. -Marielle Thank you -Ian I have a shirt like that, too. -Conner

The poor lass had been wounded and banished from heaven, threatened by a demon, and groped by a vampire, all in one night.

La beauté est un don du ciel énorme, immérité, accordé de manière aléatoire et stupide.

Old European joke: in heaven the cooks are French, the police British, the engineers German, the lovers Italian, while in hell the cooks are British, the police German, the engineers Italian.

Let nobody fool you, most couples are conjoined on earth. The mismatches, now they are a different story. They are made in heaven