“In the morning of the world,
When earth was nigher heaven than now.”

— Robert Browning , Pippa Passes

Part III.
Pippa Passes (1841)

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English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812–1889

Sydney Carter (1915–2004) British musician and poet

Lord of the Dance (1963)

“Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth.”

David Hare (1947) British writer

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 563.
Misattributed

“Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples,
and older than the Scriptures,
and whether we realize it or not,
they hold more authority.”

Eden ahbez (1908–1995) American songwriter and recording artist

Tape recording to Joe Romersa (1992)
Shadowbox Studio

“What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Part Three, Ch. 11
Source: On the Road (1957)
Context: In 1942 I was the star in one of the filthiest dramas of all time. I was a seaman, and went to the Imperial Café on Scollay Square in Boston to drink; I drank sixty glasses of beer and retired to the toilet, where I wrapped myself around the toilet bowl and went to sleep. During the night at least a hundred seamen and assorted civilians came in and cast their sentient debouchements on me till I was unrecognizably caked. What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.

“We comprehend the earth only when we have known heaven. Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster?”

Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) English clergyman

Sermon XX, Part II

“Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

Jeremy Taylor, "Apples of Sodom," Part II, Sermon XX of Twenty-Five Sermons for the Winter Half-Year, Preached at Golden Grove (1653)
Misattributed
Variant: 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!