Motivational Quotes

Heaven

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Heaven

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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.

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

Goldman, Emma

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

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 ink of the scholar and the blood of a martyr are of equal value in heaven.

Koran, The

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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To be with God.

Confucius

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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

Horton, Doug

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To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight.

16.

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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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Renard, Jules

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

Corot, Jean-Baptiste

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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.

Torrey, R. A.

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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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Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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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

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

Louis, Joe

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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.

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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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All things come from above.

Motto

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Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

Wilberforce, B.

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