What Is Heaven Quotes

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

Heaven is for those who think of it.

Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.

Because,” he said quietly as she stood up, “until you walked into it, this was an ordinary garden.” Puzzled, Elizabeth tipped her head. “What is it now?” “Heaven.

My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.

The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

If God is in Heaven, Hell is empty.

I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.

All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven.

I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Daddy, I'm always in prayer because part of my brain, through the Holy Spirit, is in constant communication with Heaven [God]. My mouth is for talking to people.

I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

Your grandmother used to say that you were two souls separated in heaven. She mainly meant you were both trouble and deserved each other.

It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

'Cause you can't buy a house in heaven!

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

When I'm on the court, it's like I'm in heaven.

The way of heaven is to help and not harm.

The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.

Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through.

Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.

What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.

My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious. Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe. Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion.

Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.

To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.

When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation.

Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.

It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.

They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.

Revelation has not ceased. The Heavens are not closed. God speaks to prophets today, and He will speak to you.

We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.

Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.