Quotes with heaven

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  • Pearl S. Buck We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Dwight L. Moody We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Bob Dylan Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Anatole France 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
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Jeremy Taylor 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 science is not able to make an oyster.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Jonathan Swift What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Jung Chang When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.
    Wild Swans (2008) 147
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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  • Ayn Rand When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Carolina Herrera When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Akhenaton When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Lao-Tzu 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.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Worship with fulness of heart the weak memory of heaven!
    It cannot trace
    Either your name or your face
    Nobody knows you're still living.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Great hymn of thanksgiving [Grosser Dankchoral] (1
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Thomas à Kempis You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Ben Nicholson You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • James Joyce You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Beth Ditto You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
    Personal Quotes/ Biography (2016)
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Rutherford You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
    Samuel Rutherford
    Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author (1600 - 1661)
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  • Brigham Young You will probably have what is called a Christian Church here; they will not admit that we are Christians, but they cannot think us further from the plan of salvation as revealed from heaven than we know them to be, so we are even on that ground, as far as it goes.
    Christians Journal of Discourses 14:196 (June 3, 1871)
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Thomas Traherne Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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