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Quotes about Heaven


Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.

Chinese Proverb

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

James Joyce

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Henry David Thoreau

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

Robert Browning

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Mark Twain

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Mary Baker Eddy

Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.

Chinese Proverb

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Will Carleton

Heaven's help is better than early rising.

Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.

Sir Walter Scott

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Morarji Desai

Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.

Joseph Hopkinson

Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.

Richard M. Nixon

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Nicolas Caussin

PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.

Ambrose Bierce

Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I resign; The post of honor shall be mine.

John Gay

My master is of churlish disposition And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality.

William Shakespeare

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Alphonse De Lamartine

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Thomas Moore

Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.

Rose Pastor Stokes

He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the devil in.

Robert Pollok

It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

Thomas Hood

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