Quotes about heaven

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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?”

“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.”

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

“Music is a gift from heaven.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Who loves his country never forfeits heaven.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“Heaven is a Christian-free eternity.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“A monastery is an earthly heaven.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”