What Is Heaven Quotes

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.

If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.

O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture Of Thee, the Living Word.

It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset, or the golden suffusions of autumn.

Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

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

Here is neither want of appetite nor mouths, Pray heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.

When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.

I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more

I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.

The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.

And God would bid His warfare cease, Saying all things were well; And softly make a rosy peace, A peace of Heaven with Hell.

And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.

True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!

My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies.

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as rational beings in heaven live unto Him.

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.

As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.

I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

Are there no stones in heaven But what serves for thunder?

But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.

Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.

All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas