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Heaven Quotes


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


"Heaven's currency is friendship."
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