Heaven Quotes - page 18

My idea of heaven is eating pate de foie gras to the sound of trumpets. (Sydney Smith)
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. View quote
Nicolaus Copernicus
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. View quote
Walter Savage Landor
You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Let the corporations do as they please -- pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets -- and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him. View quote
Matthew Henry
All these books are published in Heaven. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
And when love speaks, the voice of all the godsMakes heaven drowsy with the harmony. View quote
William Shakespeare
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puffd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede. counsel. View quote
William Shakespeare
No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak. View quote
William Shakespeare
When panting sighs the bosom fill, And hands by chance united thrill At once with one delicious pain The pulses and the nerves of twain; When eyes that erst could meet with ease, Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun Ecstatic conscious unison,- The sure beginnings, say, be these Prelusive to the strain of love Which angels sing in heaven above? (Arthur Hugh Clough)
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from Heaven Than when I was a boy. View quote
Thomas Hood
Oh bed! oh bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head. View quote
Thomas Hood
Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one. View quote
Juan Donoso Cortés
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven. View quote
Sophocles
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. View quote
Mark Twain
The dog is a gentleman I hope to go to his heaven, not man's. View quote
Mark Twain
You cannot find the centre Where we dance, where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower, Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven. View quote
R. S. Thomas
I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself. View quote
George Frideric Handel
Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us. View quote
Pierre Corneille
Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity. View quote
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God's help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires. View quote
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those of the angels in heaven, or whether they are diminished by the fact that they protect and serve us. No, they are certainly not; for the work of the angels is the will of God, and the will of God is the work of the angels; their service to us does not hinder their joy nor their working. If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God. View quote
Meister Eckhart