Heaven Quotes · Page 89

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.

— Rama Swami

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

— Colum McCann

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

— Jules Renard

When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.

— Wendy Kaminer

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.

— Albert Schweitzer

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

— Louis D. Brandeis

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Emma Goldman

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide…

— Thomas Carlyle

Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in…

— William T. Piper

The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And…

— Sappho

You cannot find the centre Where we dance , where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower ,…

— R. S. Thomas

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his…

— John Tillotson

So many people in my life need prayers, and I feel like I owe that to them. After all, in heaven, we…

— Jill Biden

Those who are quick to feel disrespected often have a spiritual vacuum in their lives, because they feel disconnected to the love…

— Al Gore

We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma…

— Tenzin Palmo

Many of my friends and many political experts warned me that this [presidential] campaign would be a journey to hell. Said that.…

— Donald Trump

“A man without god is a lost man. Every man believe in something. We CANT live by ourselves thinking only in money…

— Cesar

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility…

— James McCosh

Elements of the Christian fundamentalist right are one of the strongest components of "support for Israel" - support in an odd sense,…

— Noam Chomsky

“Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here, Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing,…

— William Shakespeare

You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even…

— Conor Oberst

There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility?…

— Thomas Carlyle

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.

— Anonymous

I'd rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God's truth die.

— Martin Luther

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of…

— William Blake

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

— Sophocles

My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

— Laozi

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

— Rumi

Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.

— Mencius

The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

— Victor Hugo

Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

— Michel de Montaigne

“The more perfect a thing the more it feels good and evil.”

— Dante Alighieri

“If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven?”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage.

— John Dryden

As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue

— William Shakespeare

Turn all your thoughts and aspirations to heaven. Work hard to secure for yourself a place there for ever.

— Father Damien

What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

— John Milton