Heaven Quotes

Heaven is so far of the Mind
That were the Mind dissolved
The Site ..of it…by Architect
Could not again be proved

Tis vast…as our Capacity
As fair….as our idea
To Him of adequate desire
No further ’tis, than Here
~Emily Dickinson

In the Christian world… it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.
~Emanuel Swedenborg

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
~Mark Twain

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
~Ambrose Bierce

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
~Lao Tzu

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

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
~James A. Baldwin

Heaven means to be one with God.
~Confucius

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
~Dante Alighieri

A lawyer’s dream of Heaven: Every man reclaimed his own property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
~Samuel Butler

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
~John Milton

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
~Jean Paul

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won’t let them into our country.
~Pearl S. Buck

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.
~H. G. Wells

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
~Thomas Carlyle

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
~William Blake

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave
~ Matthew Henry

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
~George Herbert