In this post, you will find great Heaven Quotes from famous people, such as Nostradamus, Michelle Dean, Martin Luther, Reinhard Bonnke, Robert Green Ingersoll. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
The universe is so enormous, and we have no idea what’s on the other side of the galaxy. It’s a lovely thing to be able to tap into. I’m definitely not opposed to any supernatural ideas, but I’ve never encountered any. I believe in spirits, but I’ve never seen a ghost. And I believe in Heaven and Hell.
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don’t see it. It is within you.
I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.
I shop everywhere. I love to shop online.Ebay is like heaven for me.
There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.
I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don’t know why we broke up. We never fought.
As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‘easy believism.’ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.
Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal.
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
If you don’t love the Dodgers, there’s a good chance you may not get into Heaven.
If somebody believes that a certain practice will get them to heaven, and then other people believe a different way of doing it, I think it’s their choice.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
If you are going to go to Heaven, I’m going to Heaven. But I don’t believe in Heaven.
War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
I’m learning more and more from every reading that I do. When people come through they’re not talking about heaven or hell, but I definitely see that there’s a continuation of life and that we do still have the ability to connect to our loved ones and the love that we share with them.
Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.
A lawyer‘s dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.
I’d rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.
I never imagined I’d go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre up the road. So I plucked up courage and asked if I could watch rehearsals. It was like Heaven.
It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.
If you tell God no because He won’t explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
It is a common assumption that a person‘s good works will get them into Heaven.
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.
My understanding of Heaven has expanded and deepened since my first encounter with visions and dreams of Heaven.
I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it’s nice, I can’t imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it’s kind of a nice thing to say, you know.
I’m not afraid of death. What’s to fear? Once you’re dead, that’s it. Nothing. I don’t believe in heaven or hell. That’s baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I’m 88, and there are things I can’t do: I can’t run a race or climb Everest. But isn’t life magnificent?
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
If you’re a physicist, for heaven’s sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn’t agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.
There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.
Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness.
From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven.
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven’s wonders.
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
People told me, ‘You talk about Europe like it’s Heaven. It’s not Heaven.
As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn’t matter, what it smells like doesn’t matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.
In the Church of Scotland, Episcopalian, you don’t have to believe in Heaven, but you definitely have to believe in Hell.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
I’m not getting to heaven on my integrity. I’m not getting to heaven on my goodness.
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps… That’s just another man‘s fantasy.
Am I going to go to Heaven or Hell when I die? No. Is there going to be a second coming, and people are going to be stricken down? I find all that exclusionary.
What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.
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.
Josh Gad was in my class. Katy Mixon. Griffin Matthews. Josh Groban – he ended up leaving to become a huge star, but he was in our class in freshman year. I remember Josh was this nerdy kid in a turtleneck with a voice from heaven.
For most people, the question why be good – as distinguished from merely law abiding – is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.
I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish – that’s what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
You can go very quickly from heaven and find yourself in hell.
Well the basic thesis is that there’s a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that – he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people’s lives. And so I’ve documented some of these wonderful things.
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.
To get to heaven, you have to work very hard. I want to go to heaven, so I will try to pray more.
‘Heaven’s Gate’ I remember, because it was the first movie I ever was cast in.
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
Indeed, the night sky is the part of our environment that’s been common to all cultures throughout human history. All have gazed up at the ‘vault of heaven’ and interpreted it in their own way.
I am not a person of faith. I’m a Catholic. I was brought up Catholic, but I’m not a church-going sort of girl. I’m very spiritual. I pray every night. I believe in Heaven and Hell, but I’m not a person that goes to church, like, every Sunday.
Life is short and if you’re looking for extension, you had best do well. ‘Cause there’s good deeds and then there’s good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
My view of life is, ‘If you’re going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
If there’s a golf course in heaven, I hope it’s like Augusta National. I just don’t want an early tee time.
Getting into Heaven is not something you can earn or deserve. God makes that really clear in the scriptures.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
If Heaven exists, to know that there’s laughter, that would be a great thing.
I don’t believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable.
Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It’s their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they’ve been saying, You can kill us, but you’ll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.
I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I’m going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, ‘It ain’t bad, but it ain’t San Francisco.’
Christianity made us think there’s one heaven.
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
I am so proud of my family, and I am happy to give them all the limelight they want because heaven knows I got more than I need.
I think the problem I have with films is that, because there’s so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they’ll take to heaven with them. You’ve got to realise that it’s not everything, making films.
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful.
We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness – better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.
I love to give the fans what they want. They’re what I miss most when I’m not wrestling. That time in the ring is like being in heaven for me.
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.
Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.
Jesus is the only true way to Heaven.
I don’t think we’re any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it’s fun to write about the inevitable – you’re alive, and you’re going to die.
We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
Every day I write. I am not waiting for a great idea from heaven.
Let me tell you, seven days without Wolf Blitzer is heaven. A week outside ‘The Situation Room’ is downright calming. No ‘breaking news!’ No hype. Blitzer is a first-class journalist, and I mention him only by way of acknowledging his fame.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can’t really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.
When you go further and further into starvation you chose yourself, your mind becomes totally obsessed with not eating. It’s like a religion where everything is sinful, and there is a heaven at the end where you are thin and don’t need energy anymore.
To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys – but it’s very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.
I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.
I don’t discriminate when it comes to melon. I’m very open-minded. I really don’t mind; I can’t say I like any one better than the other. You can put them all in! A little melon mix salad, and I’m just in heaven.
Working on ‘Parks‘ was like heaven because everyone there was just intimidatingly intelligent and funny, and we would have these hilarious debates about really tangential things. It was inspiring because I felt really challenged to be my best.
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.
Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and – Oh Plato! – make a pudding?
I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.
That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.
The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.
The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That’s why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.
The moment that most fascinated me in Ursula Le Guin’s ‘The Lathe of Heaven’ was its descriptions of times of transition from one reality to another.
He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don’t just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.
My dad’s not here, but he’s watching in heaven.
My wife is already in Heaven.
So what’s really behind the ‘English Only’ Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.
Earth is the anteroom of Heaven, if we choose to see it so.
I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‘Lord, remember me.’
I’m so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.
A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Not all of those who cry ‘The poor, the poor!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven.
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.
I am a tea connoisseur and my idea of absolute heaven is a tea shop.
Most of us want to have enough… good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It’s just the way it is.
We never, ever judge someone on who’s going to heaven, hell. That’s the Almighty‘s job.
We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven’s sake, don’t move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don’t tell any of your neighbors where you are going.
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It’s like being transported to a fairyland.
Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
Everybody wants to go to heaven but very few people are willing to die.
If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. ‘Crossing the River Jordan‘ was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
We’ve shown that when an attack does happen, our agents and analysts will move heaven and earth to find those responsible.
I sing about heaven and hell, angels and demons.
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
Most people think that Heaven is a choir, and all you will do is sing.
I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn’t know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?
There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
I believe in Heaven. I don’t believe that this is it, and then we’re done.
I do believe there’s a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.
It’s a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
The only reason I wanted to go to college was so I could go to Notre Dame, and so after I graduate from Notre Dame I could go to heaven.
The best part about being a matchmaker is you are getting credits in heaven, as I really believe I work for God. The worst part is that matchmakers can often fix everyone up, all the way to the altar, but cannot find love themselves, so it is bittersweet.
Heaven knows, I’ve exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination… now my new book is about what really happened to me… not my heroines.
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.
I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell.
This world is very dark, but in Heaven there is no darkness.
If there is a Heaven, I’m sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.
I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they’ve been through hell on Earth.
In the urban community, the church doesn’t just take people to Heaven; it feeds, clothes, and houses them. It teaches them how to read and gets them jobs. The church should be doing all that. What the government should be doing is freeing up the church and supporting the church, as long as it is providing social services.
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.
I’ve never been much to believe that my Creator will judge me or anyone at their final days. I don’t really know if I believe in going to Heaven or Hell.
Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
I have to have a story I really want to tell, and then it makes sense to put things out there. So if you see, 2018 was again crazy for me. I did ‘Lust Stories’, ‘Made in Heaven’ and ‘Gully Boy’.
We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? – Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?
I once wrote a song called ‘No Laughing in Heaven,’ which was about not wanting to go to Heaven due to the company I’d be keeping, and with a few exceptions, the Hall of Fame is pretty much the same thing.
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn’t had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
One of my ambitions is to move to Tuscany. I like the idea of getting a vineyard. I love being under the sun and being casual and comfortable. That’s my idea of heaven.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won’t let them into our country.
I wish that more women would be vulnerable with other women because none of us on this side of Heaven will ever reach perfection. I think that needs to be normalized.
‘I don’t need brains,’ says the billionaire contemptuously. ‘I’m brainy enough myself!’ The broker cries out in desperation, ‘What, in heaven’s name, do you want?’ ‘Goodness,’ is the answer.
Let’s drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let’s drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.
When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations weren’t very high. A published book and a few appreciative readers was my idea of heaven.
In my mind, we live in Heaven, and we live in Hell.
In the beginning, before the creation of Heaven and Earth, God made the angels; free intelligences and free wills; out of His love He made them, that they might be eternally happy. And that their happiness might be complete, He gave them the perfection of a created nature; that is, He gave them freedom.
When I get to Heaven, I’ll want to fight.
I am a fan of the vampire shows, especially ‘True Blood.’ I’m obsessed with it. I got to meet the entire cast at Comic-Con and hang out with them. And that was awesome. I basically died and went to heaven.
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
I never thought ‘Stairway to Heaven’ was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.
Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
But all lost things are in the angels’ keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth’s little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.
I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing ‘Kingdom of Heaven.’
Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That’s but a hint of what we’ll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally – and permanently – be ‘at home’ in a way that defies description.
God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
Of course there are people who think of ‘heaven’ as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that’s a problem as old as the human race.
I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.
I guess you could say I got right with the man upstairs. I wanted to go to heaven.
I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.
I got a little advice for everybody: marry the girl who’s going to get you to heaven.
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
It’s a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
The Bible is not only laws, it’s also stories. It begins, ‘In the beginning God created Heaven.’ If I had written these words, I wouldn’t have written anything else; it’s just enough.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
I have great faith that Heaven’s there and I’ll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn’t about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
I got into the movie business because of ‘Days of Heaven.’
I didn’t grow up around my father. I didn’t really grow up around my mother, either. I was raised by a community of people. Spiritually speaking, my father is in Heaven, and that is who I look to for all my answers. And that’s why my faith is very strong and why my passion is strong.
Because of the inherent challenges of life on the earth, all of humanity is vulnerable. This is all the more reason to seek the kingdom of heaven within and find the peace that leads to understanding.
I believe the Scriptures teach that there’s a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell.
Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.
Heaven means to be one with God.
To me, a tax heaven is where everyone pays their fair share. In that respect, I am not quite sure we are in tax heaven yet.
I’m ensuring my place in heaven.
I read this book when I was young. It’s about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a black girl with clouds behind her. It was the first book cover I ever saw with a girl that looked like me.
When I walk into an Orthodox Church… one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven!
For heaven’s sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation – as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that – in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.
What a heaven is love! O what a hell!
We didn’t have any books at home. Not even children’s books or fairy tales. The only ‘fantastic’ stories came from religion class. And I took them all very literally, that God sees everything, and so I felt I was always being watched. Or that dead people were in Heaven right over our village.
No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would – I don’t know, I wish it upon everybody. It’s heaven.
Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama ‘Stairway To Heaven’ was me.
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.
When there are challenges like there were up to and after Daytona in 2001, you remind yourself it will one day make sense why everything happens the way it does. You may not figure it out now on this earth, but in heaven, it will all make sense.
I have been in the business for 62 years. It’s a match made in heaven.
Praying men are God’s agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.
The ‘kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death.’
You know, theater is either heaven or hell. There’s no middle.
I want my music to be a contribution, and I want the people who love me on Earth and in Heaven to be proud of who I am, and I want to be proud of myself, and I don’t want to look back and say, ‘Oh God, why did I say that?’
When I was younger, I had so many people in my family die. In my mind, heaven was as physical a place as home or school, and I knew that everyone I loved was together, enormously happy, and watching over me and awaiting my coming to this extraordinary place.
If I had to pick one guitar to take to a desert island, I’d pick my ’67 Rickenbacker 12-string, which I bought a couple of tours ago in New Jersey. The ’67 is George-style from A Hard Day’s Night, with the double binding. It’s just like heaven. It sounds incredible.
They’ve got him – credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case.
When Photoshop came around, I thought I’d died and went to heaven. When I hear artists say, ‘Oh, the good old days‘ or ‘I’m old school,’ I just want to puke. There’s no tool I won’t use.
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one’s power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
We have proclaimed to the world our determination ‘to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.’ We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.
When I came to Australia, it was like heaven.
I’m 78. We’ve lost a lot of our great stars. I can’t hang out with those who aren’t here. The phone service to Heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.
The albums ‘Heaven On Earth’ and ‘Runaway Horses‘ and ‘Live Your Life Be Free’ were harking back to when I was a young girl and listening to Californian radio – lush productions, complicated melodies, harmonies like the Beach Boys and the Mamas and Papas. That’s what those albums remind me of.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there’s always a film that comes up where it’s just heaven.
There’s this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.
It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.
I thought I’d gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can’t believe it! Why? Because we don’t want to be wrong – so we’ll be right and make it hell!
I didn’t feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence.
I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows… the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.
I’m fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
I can’t imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.
I was in heaven when I saw Taraji P. Henson wearing Moschino!
We pass now quickly from each other’s sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.
The Supreme Being I would sign up for would not prove his omnipotence by saving one life while ending dozens, or hundreds, or thousands. Nor would he summon an angel to heaven by ending a first grader’s life at the hands of a gunman or sadist.
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
Never having to hoover, cook, clean or do any task I don’t want to would be heaven.
The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but all property and home owners.
Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer’s heaven.
I think Heaven and afterlife is for the living; it’s for the people that continue on and remember that person, and if you’ve done something that is substantial in your life then you can leave a legacy and do something positive.
I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on ‘The Right Stuff.’ Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did ‘The Rookie‘ and ‘Far From Heaven,’ which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart.
I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
We were taught North Korea is a heaven. They told us how people in western countries die in hospital or have no money to study in school.
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.
Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the ‘pal‘ back in Palestinian.
We don’t work for the government. We don’t carry guns. We don’t chase aliens. We are a man and a woman. The similarities end there… If ‘X-Files‘ and ‘Touched by an Angel’ crashed on ‘Highway to Heaven,’ you’d have ‘Mysterious Ways.’
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.
In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee.
Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
Heaven and hell are something that people create to make some people feel guilty and other people like myself laugh.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
But I loved the script to 7th Heaven and couldn’t say no. It made me laugh and cry, and I was hooked. I’d love to know who turned it down, because I’m sure at least one other actor did. But I’m glad he did, whoever it was.
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she’d come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be ‘the happiest moment’ of one’s life.
I’d like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.
Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.
My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.
People say, ‘Did you violate Heaven?’ Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.
I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
My idea of heaven is not writing.
