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Heaven Quotes


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


"I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine."


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


"And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is."


"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?"


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


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


"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."


"I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right."


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


"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."


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


"Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?"


"O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"


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


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


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


"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."


"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."


"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly."


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


"Heaven's currency is friendship."
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