When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, ‘He’s OK. He’s in Heaven, and he’s with Jack and a lot of my brothers and sisters and my parents.’ So it made it very easy to get through the day thinking he was OK.
In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I’ve ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.
I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
Christianity made us think there’s one heaven.
This is what I want in heaven… words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it’s gonna be great.
We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.
I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin’s most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!
If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
If God has given you the world’s goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees and houses and other objects; it is a plane of consciousness within us. Seekers of the eternal Truth will realise their eternal Heaven within their aspiring hearts.
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.
The ‘kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death.’
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
I’m fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
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.
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
The lipstick, to make a matte that feels like heaven, is unheard of.
I try to do everything to say, ‘OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she’s happy and she’s smiling down at me from heaven?’ And that’s what I try to go by and walk by.
If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.
All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
I’ve done some effects shots. I’ve done some compositing. And in ‘Just Like Heaven’ did a lot of, like, motion control and things like that. But never done, like, computer-generated imagery in action.
When I was a kid, my idea of heaven on a hot summer day was fresh cut-up watermelon, Breakstone’s cottage cheese, and a sprinkle of salt.
In the unlikely event that I make it into heaven, I won’t be able to enjoy everlasting bliss because part of the pleasure of happiness is its transience.
Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
I have great faith that Heaven’s there and I’ll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
I didn’t want tunes that preach heaven: you know, life on Earth is bad and heaven is the only hope we have. I don’t quite care for that. I mean, when people sing that stuff, it’s good when they do it, but I didn’t want to do it.
When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven – I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.
I always think ‘Pity the Child’ is a goodie. And I’ve always liked a song called ‘Heaven Help My Heart,’ which is quite a corny number.
The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United States and did nothing about it – really? Do you think any president of the United States, if he had even an inkling there was going to be an attack, they wouldn’t have moved heaven and earth to try to stop it?
I once wrote a song called ‘No Laughing in Heaven,’ which was about not wanting to go to Heaven due to the company I’d be keeping, and with a few exceptions, the Hall of Fame is pretty much the same thing.
I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called ‘Christmas in Heaven’ about missing someone that you love that’s passed on, and wondering what’s going on up there on Christmas.
In the Church of Scotland, Episcopalian, you don’t have to believe in Heaven, but you definitely have to believe in Hell.
I guess you could say I got right with the man upstairs. I wanted to go to heaven.
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
The moment that most fascinated me in Ursula Le Guin’s ‘The Lathe of Heaven’ was its descriptions of times of transition from one reality to another.
There’s a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.
I’m working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it’s hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.
If there is a Heaven, I’m sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
My understanding of Heaven has expanded and deepened since my first encounter with visions and dreams of Heaven.
I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.
I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.
I always say that my motto when it comes to children is: My job is not to get you into Harvard, it’s to get you to heaven.
Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.
Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.
