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Quotes About Heaven

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.
~ William Shakespeare
Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
~ Poul Anderson, Operation Chaos
It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.
~ Herbert Hoover
From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony. This universal Frame began.
~ John Dryden
There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
There is more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
White clouds, blue sky.
~ Laiah Gifty Akita
In a nation where the disbelievers sought Heaven from the idols, the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muhammad] taught them that Heaven can be found through a simple smile.
~ Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
~ John Keats
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
~ John Henry Newman
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
~ Zebulon Pike
The smile on your lips brings the summer sunshine, the tears in your eyes bring the rain. I feel your touch, you warm embrace, and I'm in heaven again.
~ Bobby Helms
Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile.
~ John Fletcher
Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!
~ Alice Cary
For they both were solitary, She on earth and he is heaven. And he wooed her with caressed, Wooed her with his smile of sunshine -Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
~ Jana Oliver
But it is well known that the bourgeois pater-familias was specially devised by Heaven to utter commonplaces and trivialities.
~ A. I. Kuprin
So this is death, observed Eddie. He felt his shoulder-blades, passed a hand above his head. No wings. No halo, either. Guess we didn't make the grade as angels.
~ A.J. Butcher
The creatures of the earth think of Him as being on high, declaring, 'His glory is above the heavens' (Psalms 113:4), while the heavenly beings think of Him as being below, declaring, 'His glory is over all the earth? (Psalms 57:12), until they both, in heaven and on earth concur in declaring, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place,' because He is unknowable and no one can truly understand Him.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Be bold as a leopard, light as an eagle, swift as a deer, and strong as a lion to do the will of your Father who is in heaven.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
The way to understand the meaning of torah min hashamayim ("the Bible is from heaven") is to understand the meaning of hashamayim min hatorah ("heaven is from the Bible). Whatever taste of "heaven" we have on earth is in the Bible.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Let whoever longs to attain eternal life in heaven heed these warnings: When considering the past, contemplate these things: The evil done The good left undone
~ Adriana Trigiani
Let whoever longs to attain eternal life in heaven heed these warnings: When considering the past, contemplate these things: The evil done The good left undone The time wasted
~ Adriana Trigiani
Let whoever longs to attain eternal life in heaven heed these warnings: When considering the future, contemplate these things: Death, than which nothing is more certain
~ Adriana Trigiani