“The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.”

— Thomas Hardy

<p>This quote can be traced to two authors, in books published within the same year:</p><p>1) Rev. Edward John Hardy, known as E.J. Hardy (1849-1920), How to Be Happy Though Civil: A Book on Manners (New York, Scribners, 1909), ch. VI: A Christian Gentleman;
2) John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Peace and Happiness (Macmillan, 1909), ch. XV: Religion</p>
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English novelist and poet 1840–1928

Donald McGill (1875–1962) British artist

The Independent, September 8, 2006. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1372035.ece.

“Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 4, p. 74
Context: They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head.

“Short arm needs man to reach to Heaven,
So ready is Heaven to stoop to him.”

Francis Thompson (1859–1907) British poet

Grace of the Way http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/thompson.q3c/thompson.q3c-96.html, st. 6.

“In heaven you get the hang-over before the intoxication.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

“In their religion they are so uneven,
That each man goes his own byway to heaven.”

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist

Pt. II, l. 104.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)

“Heaven with my angel. It doesn't get any better than this.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

“Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.”

Shirley Jackson book The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House

“Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady

Jim Lehrer News Hour, when asked if she keeps a diary, hours before a jury in Little Rock, Arkansas, returned guilty verdicts against Clintons' business partners; May 29, 1996 http://www.stophillary.com/things2no.htm http://www.trettel.com/ccrc/quotes/Quotes1996/quotes060296.html
White House years (1993–2000)

“Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.”

Dean Karnazes (1962) American distance runner

Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

“That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.”

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