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Heaven Quotes


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


"Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there."


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


"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."


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


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


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


"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?"


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


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


"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven."


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


"Heaven's currency is friendship."
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