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Heaven Quotes


"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"



"It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also."


"If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation."


"I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored."


"So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad."


"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."


"Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell."


"I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself."


"Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward."


"How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored."



"This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven."


"In journalistic terms, syndication is equivalent to ascending to heaven on a pillar of cloud."


"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."



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


"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."


"There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy."


"Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing."



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


"And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that."


"Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands."


"This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven."


"We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?"


"But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!"



"I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose."


"If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing."


"Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?"


"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."


"Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward."


"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."


"Our life on Earth is nothing but a reflection of the Heaven above. Our mind is the mirror. Sometimes is peaceful and gentle, sometimes it roars and hollows. The clearer it gets, the more you see Heaven in your life. But when the storm rages on, the reflection is gone and it seems that Heaven is nowhere and has never been. Regardless of whether your mind is clear or not, what you must remember is that Heaven is still there."


"Heaven's currency is friendship."
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