What Is Heaven Quotes

Can we outrun the heavens?

It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.

Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

And how his audit stands who knows, save Heaven?

Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth

The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars.

Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!

I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

By Heaven, my soul is purg'd from grudging hate; And with my hand I seal my true heart's love

Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?

Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.

A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.

Fiat justitia et ruant coeli. Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall. See Ferdinand I 320:1.

In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.

But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.

Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

The only way to get to Heaven is to go through Hell.

It's just Gods way of getting babies to heaven faster!

I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?And shall I couple Hell?

[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

Now comes the mystery! (last words)

They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.

Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flightThe Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikesThe Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

At the gates of Heaven, if you had the chance to plead your case before Jesus, what will you say? Say nothing because your words cannot save you. John 3:16

Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments.

Truly, the world is in need of moral leadership . . .that teaches the difference between right and wrong and teaches us to forgive one another even as we are forgiven by our Father in heaven.

Of course! the path to heavendoesn't lie down in flat miles.It's in the imaginationwith which you perceive this world, and the gestureswith which you honor it.-from The Swan

If you lose God's paradise in Heaven, then you never existed.

Sometimes . . . we grow homesick for heaven. Many times in the midst of the sin, suffering, and sorrow of this life there is a tug at our soul. That is homesickness coupled with anticipation.

My home is in heaven. I’m just passing through this world.

God’s house will be happy because Christ will be there.

In heaven . . . the “communication gap” will be closed.

Only in heaven will we know exactly what heaven is like.

We were equipped by our Creator not only to live on this earth, but also to live in touch with heaven. This was the Great Design of the Great Designer.