Quotes with heaven

  • A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
  • Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows.
  • Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.
  • All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
  • The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!
  • In sorrow there is no rhyme. Dream the kind of a life that you will find The kind of love that lasts forever. Dream the kind of a life that you will find The kind of love that lasts forever. In heaven there is no time.
  • Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
  • To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
  • We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
  • Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
    ― Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Sir John Bowring A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
    ― Sir John Bowring
     
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  • George Moore Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
    ― George Moore
    Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Robert Browning A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
    ― Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Robert Leighton Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
    ― Robert Leighton
     
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  • William Shakespeare But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.
    ― William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone who has ever built anywhere a ''new heaven'' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Izaak Walton God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
    ― Izaak Walton
    British writer (1593 - 1683)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]
    ― Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Charles Dickens In the exhaustless catalogue of Heaven's mercies to mankind the power we have of finding some germs of comfort in the hardest trials, must ever occupy the foremost place.
    Source: Barnaby Rudge
    ― Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Joseph Addison Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
    ― Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Molière It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
    ― Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • A.R. Orage Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
    ― A.R. Orage
     
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  • Bertrand Russell Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
    Source: Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
    ― Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Joseph Addison Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
    ― Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Paul E. Little Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, ''Now cut that out!'' That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!
    ― Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Sir Richard Steele The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
    ― Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
    ― G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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