Miguel de Cervantes Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Freedom, Men, Hands

• Heaven's help is better than early rising.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Heaven, Rising, Helping

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.550, Wordsworth Editions

• All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Religious, Children, Knights

• Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Blessing, Heaven, Liberty

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Gibson Lockhart (1854). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.214

• Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Heaven, Bread

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1853). “Don Quixote de La Mancha”, p.362

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