Heaven Quotes - page 5

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time. (Cormac McCarthy)
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All place shall be hell that is not heaven. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did. View quote
Mother Teresa
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others. View quote
Davy Crockett
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. View quote
Thomas Moore
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. View quote
William Cowper
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him. View quote
Philip James Bailey
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. (Logan Pearsall Smith)
Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven. View quote
Henry Fielding
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Seek on earth what you have found in heaven. View quote
George William Russell
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven. View quote
Francis Thompson
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. View quote
David Hume
I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now. View quote
Benny Hinn
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. View quote
Aeschylus
When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see Did he who made the Lamb make thee. View quote
William Blake
A Robin Redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. View quote
William Blake
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! (Anatole France)
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. View quote
Edmund Spenser
Home-that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given. View quote
Emily Dickinson
This child is not mine as the first was I cannot sing it to rest I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast. Yet it lies in my little one's cradle, And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she 's gone to Transfigures its golden hair. View quote
James Russell Lowell