Sunday, February 5, 2012

Some famous quotes about heaven

Just to balance out yesterday's post--famous quotes about hell--here are some famous quotes about heaven. The different views of heaven and resulting quotes are as different as the individuals who have uttered them. That was true for yesterday's quotes about hell as well.

Heaven means to be one with God.
Confucius

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Confucius

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."
Friedrich Nietzsche

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Plato

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
Jimi Hendrix

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
David Hume

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Ayn Rand

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
Martin Luther

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
Billy Graham

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Boethius

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson


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