Jonathan Swift Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Happiness, Success, Heaven

  Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh, 12 - 13 Aug. 1720 See Luther 3; Steele 2

• Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

  Jonathan Swift

  Prayer, Heaven, Devotion

  Jonathan Swift (1755). “The works of Jonathan Swift ...: accurately revised ... adorned with copperplates; with some account of the author's life, and notes historical and explanatory”, p.227

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Heaven, Ignorant, Literature

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706).

• Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

  Jonathan Swift

  Taken, Heaven, Atheism

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.392

• For in that universal call,
  Few bankers will to heaven be mounters;
  They'll cry, "Ye shops, upon us fall!
  Conceal and cover us, ye counters!
  When other hands the scales shall hold,
  And they, in men's and angels' sight
  Produced with all their bills and gold,
  'Weigh'd in the balance and found light!'

  Jonathan Swift

  Fall, Angel, Men

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1883). “Historical tracts. Political poetry. Poems chiefly relating to Irish politics”

• I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

  Jonathan Swift

  Believe, Justice, Heaven

  Jonathan Swift (1808). “Works”, p.105

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