Quotes about heaven
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“We live in a world of instant communication and the amount of information that comes our way can be overwhelming. The questions of what’s important in life, what is life-giving etc. can often be missed. So my message is simple, and it sometimes comes up at Mass: "Judge wisely the things of earth and measure them against the values of heaven."”

George Stack (1946) Irish Roman Catholic archbishop

Heart Talk : Archbishop George Stack https://www.shalomworld.org/episode/archbishop-george-stack (4 March 2018)

Life, World, Way, Communication

“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”

Plautus (-254–-184 BC) Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period

Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“The world is miserable because men live beneath themselves; the error of modern man is that he wants to reform the world without having either the will or the power to reform man, and this flagrant contradiction, this attempt to make a better world on the basis of a worsened humanity, can only end in the very abolition of what is human, and consequently in the abolition of happiness too. Reforming man means binding him again to Heaven, reestablishing the broken link; it means tearing him away from the reign of the passions, from the cult of matter, quantity and cunning, and reintegrating him into the world of the spirit and serenity, we would even say: into the world of sufficient reason.”

Frithjof Schuon book Understanding Islam

[1998, Understanding Islam, World Wisdom, 26, 0-941532-24-0]
Miscellaneous, Modernity

Men, Happiness, World, Error

“Heaven weeps, but free will is sacred. The meaning of yes is created by the ability to say no.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 24 (pp. 442-443)

“When she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think "this must be heaven."”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain — which started a fraction of a second later — was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain — unique, unmistakable.
Veronika Decides to Die (1998)

Thinking

“The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his creatures, per pro his chosen shits.”

Samuel Beckett book The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)

God, Sport, Water

“My idea of heaven is, eating pâté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets.”

Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman

View ascribed by Smith to his friend Henry Luttrell; reported in Hesketh Pearson, The Smith of Smiths (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1934), p. 236

Idea

“I don't know what is in this money that you are punishing other struggling citizens for, it's not like you're going to go to heaven with all the money.”

Suraj Sani (1996) Nigerian writer, Spoken word artist

P. 17. Thorns in the desert https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10937346-i-don-t-know-what-is-in-this-money-that-you

Money

“Ascending to heaven is the greatest trip in every good Muslim's existence. I don't believe that the Prophet meant this trip to be an exception. I think that a woman can get into Heaven, as long as she's accompanied by a man of her family.”

Salah Al Budair (1971) Imaam at Masjid al-Nabawi

Here is why Saudi Arabia is a pro at passing anti-women rulings https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/here-is-how-saudi-arabia-is-a-pro-at-passing-anti-women-rulings-318843-2016-04-19 (19th April 2016)

Family, Thinking

“If only I could fly away
Revel in the moonlight
Try to find a good life
Find a way to break the chains
Find a way to break the chains
Struggle just to hear the call
It's easy now, easy now
Heaven is a mile away
I'll burn it all and leave today”

Example (musician) (1982) English rapper and singer

"Break the Chains" (song), with Rationale (Tinashé Fazakerley) <br class="br"> ("Break the Chains" on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvosF7mbrnE <br class="br">Studio albums, Some Nights Last for Days (2020)

Life, Way, Flying

“Perhaps, there are different heavens for each individual.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Some individuals decided to bring heaven to Earth by inventing the portraits of their god.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God

“The heaven of the scientists lies in knowing how the Creator did everything.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“We end up creating more demons, multiplying chaos and destruction, adding more to the original number that descended from heaven.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“You are not forced to turn this world into a hell, thinking that you will receive, or gain the passport of entering heaven.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

World, Hell, Thinking

“According to the ideology of reincarnation, Earth is both your heaven and your hell. Everything is paid for and rewarded here.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Hell

“Adam and Eve were still ignorant and new residents of Heaven, yet the tree was placed there to test their IQ level.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Tree

“He who escaped death must have a missed call from heaven.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Death

“Heaven exists because of you and all living things in the universe.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Universe

“Many people wish to be placed in the heaven of scientists. Because few thinkers can be found in religion.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

People, Religion

“Since Adam and Eve were fired or cast out of heaven, we have all become unemployed from that day forward.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Since there is no work left in heaven, the purpose of being here on Earth is to work.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The concept of heaven is so beautiful to the point where imagination rules the world.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

World, Beauty, Imagination

“The VIP places in heaven are only reserved for the religious leaders and founders.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“We are taught to hate dictators here on Earth, but it will be a different case in Heaven.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Hate

“With the concept of reincarnation, being offered more chances to repent, we will eventually destroy the idea of heaven and hell.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Idea, Hell, Chance

“Love of the sacred implies love of God, and inversely, the sacred is the perfume of Heaven.”

Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher

[2016, La conscience de l’Absolu, Hozhoni, 60, 978-2-37241-020-5]
Spiritual life, Sense of the sacred

Love, God

“Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”

Rose of Lima (1586–1617) Peruvian colonist and Dominican saint

In P. Léonard Hansen, Vita mirabilis, 1664, p. 137 https://archive.org/details/wotb_6743752/page/137/mode/2up?view=theater; quoted in Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1992, § 618 https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1O.HTM.

“It mocks me as it flies, I know:
All too soon the gleam will go;
Yet I love it and shall love
My dream that brooks no narrower bars
Than bind the darkening heavens above,
My Jack o'Lanthorn of the stars:
Then, I'll follow it no more,
I'll light the lamp: I'll close the door.”

Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet

Apologia
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), Forest of Wild Thyme

Love, Dreams, Star, Light

“Descend, descend, Urania, speak
To men in their own tongue!
Leave not the breaking heart to break
Because thine own is strong.
This is the law, in dream and deed,
That heaven must walk on earth!
O, shine upon the humble creed
That holds the heavenly birth.”

Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet

"The Secret Inn : 'The Kingdom is Within You'" in Master Mind Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 3 (December 1914), p. 99

Men, Law, Dreams, Birth

“Marriages are arranged in heaven but the bills must be paid here on earth.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Friday

Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 6 (p. 49)

Marriage

“Even if a man were to make a new heaven and earth, he could not live free of care.”

Poemen (340–450) Egyptian monk and desert father

Saying 48

“Angels in the house always die in the books they preside over because early ascension into heaven is their reward—and because their goodness makes them boring.”

Maureen Corrigan (1955) American journalist and writer

Source: Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005), Chapter 4 (p. 141)

Books, Angels, Housing

“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.”

Jesus (-7–30 BC) Jewish preacher and religious leader, central figure of Christianity

Mark 13:31, NWT
New Testament, The Gospel of Mark

“Can we grasp that the only requirement in order that this may be so is organization, a combined world organization founded upon the spiritual principle of sharing and cooperation; and that this would change the world from the state it is now in to a comparative Heaven?”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter II Planning a Model World

World, Change

“Perhaps things will become worse and then better. Perhaps there’s a small god up in heaven readying herself for us. Another world is not only possible, she’s on her way. Maybe many of us won’t be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

Source: Articles, Come September (29 Sep 2002)

God, World, Way

“A sexy woman is heaven to behold, but hell to live.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Una donna sexy è il paradiso da vedere, ma un inferno da vivere.
Source: prevale.net

Hell

“Music is a gift from heaven.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La musica è un dono del cielo.
Source: prevale.net

Music

“God wanted to make heaven and the earth is that heaven. Nowhere in the universe there is so much love, life, beauty and peace. Enjoy your stay with the fellow beings.”

Amit Ray (1960) Indian author

Source: Meditation:Insights and Inspirations (2010) https://books.google.com/books?id=s2ctBgAAQBAJ,

Love, Life, God, Peace

“Surely deep down we all want to respect the reputation of others, see the best in them and not cause an unjust injury. So aim for the heavens and not the gutter.”

Paul Donoghue (1949) Roman Catholic bishop

The power of the spoken word ‘to heal or destroy’ https://www.cookislandsnews.com/uncategorised/church-talk-the-power-of-the-spoken-word-to-heal-or-destroy/ (30 April 2021)

“Who loves his country never forfeits heaven.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: Savonarola (1881), Candida to Valori in Act IV, sc. vi; p. 285.

Love, Country

“From the looks you're giving me
I can tell, as well see
if I've done something you think's wrong:
no words need be conveyed.
Then again, when we embrace,
from the look that's on your face
if heaven is a place on earth
right here is where it's been.”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"No Way" (song) <br class="br">Song lyrics <br class="br">Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "No Way" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mPUlZ4vRE (song on YouTube)

Thinking

“I often dream about falling. Such dreams are commonplace to the ambitious or those who climb mountains. Lately I dreamed I was clutching at the face of a rock but it would not hold. Gravel gave way. I grasped for a shrub, but it pulled loose, and in cold terror 1 fell into the abyss. Suddenly I realized that my fall was relative; there was no bottom and no end. A feeling of pleasure overcame me. I realized that what I embody, the principle of life, cannot be destroyed. It is written into the cosmic code, the order of the universe. As I continued to fall in the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness.”

Heinz R. Pagels (1939–1988) American physicist

Source: The Cosmic Code (1982), p. 312-313

Life, Pleasure, Peace, Beauty

“You do not so act as to avoid Hell and enter Heaven.”

Ibrahim ibn Adham (718–776) ascetic Sufi saint

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 27

Hell

“When it rains, guess it pours—yes, it does
Wish there wasn't any pain, but I can't pretend there ain't
I ain't placin' any blame
I ain't pointin' fingers, Heaven knows I've never been a saint”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Going Through Changes"
2010s, Recovery (2010)

Pain

“It all begins with the family, That's where all the vocations come from. Priests, sisters, brothers, deacons, we do not come flying down from heaven. We come from families.”

Eduardo Nevares (1954) Roman Catholic bishop

Source: New Phoenix auxiliary bishop learned importance of faith from family https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/21144/new-phoenix-auxiliary-bishop-learned-importance-of-faith-from-family (13 October 2010)

Family, Sister, Flying

“Atheists, or Deists only in the name,
By word or deed deny a God. They eat
Their daily bread, & draw the breath of heaven,
Without a thought or thanks; heav'n's roof to them
Is but a painted ceiling hung with lamps,
No more, that light them to their purposes.
They 'wander loose about.'”

Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist

They nothing see,
Themselves except, and creatures like themselves,
That liv'd short-sighted, impotent to save.
So on their dissolute spirits, soon or late,
Destruction cometh 'like an armed man,'
Or like a dream of murder in the night,
Withering their mortal faculties, & breaking
The bones of all their pride.
Living Without God In The World (1798)

God, Light, Drawing, Painting

“It made me very, very, very, very happy, because I met all those I love and I thank the heavens for giving them to me. I thank God for the trouble they went to.”

Lucile Randon (1904–2023) French supercentenarian; world's second oldest living person

COVID-defying nun toasts 117th birthday with wine and prayer https://apnews.com/article/117-nun-covid-second-oldest-french-ff9f0b6be7f4db0ce0917824e740ecd5 (11 February 2021)

Love, God, Happiness

“The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that’s really swell. In fact, that way of looking at things is what keeps us miserable.”

Pema Chödron (1936) American philosopher

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)

Way

“Heaven is a Christian-free eternity.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

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

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

“It doesn’t matter whether we consider ourselves "secular" or "religious": in some fundamental way, we're all reaching for the heavens.”

Susan Cain (1968) self-help writer

Bittersweet Introduction at p. xxviii

Way

“I am Yali, and I would like to welcome you to Heaven. I hope you will enjoy your stay.”

Larry Niven book Dream Park

He laughed heartily, as at a private joke. “Yes, I most certainly hope you do. After all, some of you may stay forever. It is a nice place, actually, one of those infinitely rare situations where one is rewarded commensurately to one’s efforts. Surely that is Heaven by any man’s definition?”
Source: Dream Park (1981), Chapter 19, “Neck Riddles” (p. 258)

Hope

“A true worshipper will every year know more of self, and God, and heaven, and duty, and doctrine, and practice, and experience. His religion is a living thing, and will grow.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Source: Knots Untied (1877), Ch. XIII: "Worship", p. 295

God, Religion

“A monastery is an earthly heaven.”

John Climacus book The Ladder of Divine Ascent

4:87
The Ladder of Divine Ascent

“Do something, by God's help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Source: Old Paths (1878), Ch. II: "Our Souls", p. 62

God, Hell, Help

“The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Vol. I, Luke VIII: 16–21, p. 257
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Luke (1858–1859)

Selfishness

“A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Vol. I, Luke V: 27–32, p. 150
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Luke (1858–1859)

“There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven,—the crucified Son of God.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Vol. III, John XIV: 4–11, p. 60
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. John (1865–1873)

God

“Heaven sometimes speaks through the mouths of lunatics, drunkards and children.”

Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher

1042
Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960)

Children

“Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.”

T.S. Eliot book The Rock

The Rock, Part I (1934)

Life, Wisdom, God, Knowledge

“O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep,
Thou bearest angels to us in the night,
Saints out of heaven with palms. Seen by thy light
Sorrow is some old tale that goeth not deep;
Love is a pouting child.”

Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer

"Sleep (A Woman Speaks)", line 1, p. 98.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)

Love, Angels, Sleep, Light

“Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.”

Raheel Farooq Pakistani writer

Kalam (2018)

Men, World, Hell

“No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven's glories shine,
And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear.

O God within my breast,
Almighty, ever-present Deity!
Life — that in me has rest,
As I — undying Life — have power in Thee!

Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main...”

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet

No Coward Soul Is Mine (1846)

Life, Men, God, World

“The heaviest burden of our human side is not sin. Because heaven or hell is a choice that we create ourselves. The heaviest burden of our humanity is the ego. how can we defeat and subdue the personal ego. Sin is just a condition and consequence of the wrong life choices. It is impossible for us to separate that consequences from the interests of our personal egos.”

Titon Rahmawan

#ego

Life, Hell, Personality

“Τhere is a cry deeper than all sound,
tears hidden that overflowing as waves,
a shadows language that whispering in the ear of life,
''be boundless, feel the earth recieve you as you are,
be conscious and the infinite expanse of heaven
will grow even wider.”

Alexis Karpouzos (1967)

Source: Song There is a cry

Life, Feeling, Tear, Cry

“Women are stars, a gift from heaven. And, when they are happy, they shine with their own light, intense and vital.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Le donne sono stelle, un dono del cielo. E, quando sono felici, brillano di una luce propria, intensa e vitale.
Source: prevale.net

Women, Happiness, Star, Light

“In my opinion, no one can enter heaven of their own accord”

Titon Rahmawan

“There are special, rare people who you do not meet by chance, but arrive as a gift from heaven. They reach out to you to encourage you, to be there for you in fragile moments, in the instants when the world seems to collapse on you. These people are part of that thin space of life, defined wonder.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Esistono persone speciali, rare, che non si incontrano per caso, ma che arrivano come un dono dal cielo. Ti raggiungono per incoraggiarti, per esserti accanto nei momenti di fragilità, negli istanti in cui il mondo sembra crollarti addosso. Queste persone fanno parte di quel sottile spazio di vita, definito meraviglia.
Source: prevale.net

Life, People, World, Chance

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Quotes about heaven
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