Heaven Quotes - Page 11

• Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspiration, Humor, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.109

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• Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

  Robert Frost

  Giving, Glimpse, Looks

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• 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

  Dream, Happy Life, Greatness

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1850, Penguin

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• I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

  James Whistler

  Intelligence, Genius, Granted

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• To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Children, Two

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

  Humphrey Gilbert

  Sea, Land

  Quoted in Richard Hakluyt, Third and Last Volume of the Voyages (1600).

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• Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, May

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.382, Courier Corporation

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• A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Boss, Earth, Excuse

  "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1882.

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• On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Garden, Dawn

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• From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

  Teresa of Avila

  Night, Looks, Miserable

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• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  Imelda Marcos

  God Is Love

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Boethius

  Depressing, Men, Feeling Alone

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• Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

  Rick Warren

  Answers, Earth, Purpose Driven Life

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• He who tears down the cross, what is there left to lift him to heaven? The church claiming to be a Christian church is false to the title, if she make the cross of Christ of none effect.

  Herrick Johnson

  Christian, Tears, Church

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 173), 1895.

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• Order is heaven's first law.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Math, Order

  1733 An Essay on Man, epistle to 4, l.49.

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• 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.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Mind, Atheism, Trying

  Evelyn Waugh (1942). “Put out more flags”

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• To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Hell, Virtue

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.203, The Floating Press

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• If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven

  Christopher Love

  Men, Grace, Wicked

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• The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

  William Blake

  Fool, Holy

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.233, Psychology Press

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• They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't.

  Billy Joel

  Evil, Waiting, Those Who Wait

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• Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.

  Barbara Johnson

  Boxing, Want, Criminal Mind

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.58, Zondervan

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• I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Hope, Bird

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2435, Delphi Classics

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• Do not be dismayed, daughters, at the number of things that you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.

  Teresa of Avila

  Daughter, Journey, Greatness

  "The Way of Perfection".

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• As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

  Douglas Horton

  Fear, Doors, Atheism

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• O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Muse, Invention

  'Henry V' (1599) chorus, l. 1

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