Motivational Quotes

Heaven

When we die and go to Heaven, our Maker is not going to say, Why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? The only thing we're going to be asked at that precious moment is Why didn't you become you?

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Best Quotes about Heaven

Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.

Throop III, Kelvin

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

Wells, H.G.

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

Renard, Jules

All things come from above.

Motto

Everybody wants to go heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Louis, Joe

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Law, William

In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.

Blake, William

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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.

Horton, Doug

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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

Joyce, James

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We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal.

Harnack, Adolph

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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Lewis, C. S.

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I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Morley, Christopher

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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.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.

Lewis, C. S.

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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

Corot, Jean-Baptiste

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

Brandeis, Louis D.

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

Goldman, Emma

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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.

Bible

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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Hare, David

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It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them.

Caird, Dr.

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Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Swift, Jonathan

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As for evildoers, for them awaits a painful chastisement; but for those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, they shall be admitted to gardens underneath which rivers flow, therein dwelling forever, by the leave of their Lord, their greeting therein: Peace!

Qur'an

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Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. [Mathew]

Bible

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To be with God.

Confucius

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Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

Dylan, Bob

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The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

Horton, Doug

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If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?

Horton, Doug

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Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Twain, Mark

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Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.