Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
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.
I mean sex can be funny for heaven’s sake.
We can project just about anything we want onto NFL owners – one of them is named Arthur Blank, for heaven’s sake. He’s a walking Mad Lib, just waiting for us to complete him.
Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going ‘Where did I say build a water slide?’
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. ‘Crossing the River Jordan’ was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
I had written ‘Cafe de Flore’ with ‘Stairway to Heaven’ in mind.
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
To appreciate heaven well, it’s good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.
Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?
Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
My early films were very European based. It was ‘As It Is In Heaven,’ ‘Together,’ they were great international successes, but then I did, I think, 60 movies or something.
The ‘kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death.’
So they talk about heaven, and I don’t know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. Nothing. That life cannot be better than the one I’ve lived down here, the football life. It’s been perfect.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
The Muslim heaven features prominently in the Quran, Arabic poetries and Hadith. The Jewish heaven, though, is still a mystery; it’s mystic.
If listeners aren’t carried away to Heaven, I’m failing.
Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
I believe it matters how you treat people. I believe in Heaven. I don’t believe that this is it, and then we’re done. I have a lovely relationship with God, although when I’ve lost someone or I’ve seen a sick child, I’ve had conversations with Him in which I’ve had to ask, ‘How can that be right?’
The Supreme Being I would sign up for would not prove his omnipotence by saving one life while ending dozens, or hundreds, or thousands. Nor would he summon an angel to heaven by ending a first grader’s life at the hands of a gunman or sadist.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Tweeting is really only good for one thing – it’s just good for tweeting… It is rewarding, because it’s just its own reward. It’s sort of like heaven.
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.
We have the greatest Hall of all the Halls. And to be able to join these men, on this stage, in football heaven is the greatest day of my life.
Because of the inherent challenges of life on the earth, all of humanity is vulnerable. This is all the more reason to seek the kingdom of heaven within and find the peace that leads to understanding.
The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late ’80s.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
When you get up into the crown of a redwood tree, you lose sight of the ground entirely. You also lose sight of the sky. And you’re in a lost world. You’re in an undiscovered, unexplored ecosystem, somewhere between Heaven and Earth, filled with forms of life, not all of which have been given names by scientists yet.
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
We pass now quickly from each other’s sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.
My view of life is, ‘If you’re going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven.
It’s a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
In the urban community, the church doesn’t just take people to Heaven; it feeds, clothes, and houses them. It teaches them how to read and gets them jobs. The church should be doing all that. What the government should be doing is freeing up the church and supporting the church, as long as it is providing social services.
Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
The Russian male audience, they loved ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,’ and they like my comedies, but the Russian male audience is action, action, action.
I have to have a story I really want to tell, and then it makes sense to put things out there. So if you see, 2018 was again crazy for me. I did ‘Lust Stories’, ‘Made in Heaven’ and ‘Gully Boy’.
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
To get to heaven, you have to work very hard. I want to go to heaven, so I will try to pray more.
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.
This world is very dark, but in Heaven there is no darkness.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
Satan understands the power of men and women united in righteousness. He is still stinging from his banishment into eternal exile after Michael led the hosts of heaven, comprised of valiant men and women united in the cause of Christ, against him.
It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Donald Trump and the First Amendment, it’s not a beautiful match; it’s not a match made in heaven. Between the free speech rights that he has not defended and the freedom of the press, which he has not defended, it’s problematic.
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.
If I make $30,000 a month, I’ll spend $29,999. I tell friends, ‘Oh, you need money to go to college?’ I’m a little crazy, but the backwash is heaven.
I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.
I’m not getting to heaven on my integrity. I’m not getting to heaven on my goodness.
The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
I hope I’m Jessica Tandy, you know. I hope I’m onstage, and I fall over at 85 or something with everyone applauding thinking that it was a joke, you know, ‘There she goes again,’ and I’m just gone. I’ve gone to Heaven.
