He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot.
– The Talmud
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven called . . . we're a match!
– Tom Zegan
Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
– Mark Twain
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
– William Congreve
– William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8
Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask.
– Billy Graham
Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.
– Lu Yen
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
– Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Providence" #330
Heaven is where the reasonable people are!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Heaven means to be one with God.
– Confucius
Heaven without love : what a hell.
– Charles de LEUSSE
Heaven without love : what a hell. (Paradis sans amour : voilà ce qu'est l'enfer)
Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
– Michelangelo Buonarroti
Heaven?s gate is narrow and minute,* It cannot be perceived by foolish men, Blinded by vain illusions of the world. E?en the clear-sighted, who discern the way And seek to enter, find the portal barred And hard to be unlocked. Its massive bolts Are pride and passion, avarice and lust.
– Mahabharata
Here at lastWe shall be freethe Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us henceHere we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in HellBetter to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
– John Milton
How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
– Robert A. Heinlein
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.
– G. C. Lichtenberg
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did
– Mother Theresa
I am...a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
– John M. Ford
I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.
– Samual Rutherford
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
– Woody Allen
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.
– Isaac Asimov
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places.
