The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven.
– Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Heaven and Hell" #51
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
– Saadi
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.
– Edward Chapin
The fish dwell in the depths of the waters, and the eagles in the sides of heaven; the one, though high, may be reached with the arrow, and the other, though deep, with the hook; but the heart of man at a foot?s distance cannot be known.*
– Burmese Proverb
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
– James Arthur Baldwin
The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.
– Dante
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
– Martin Luther
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven
– John Milton, Dr. Faustus
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
– John Milton
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.
– William Shakespeare
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.
– David Thomas
The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.
The quality of mercy is not strained It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.
– Mark Twain
The spirit of man communes with Heaven the omnipotence of Heaven resides in man. Is the distance between Heaven and man very great
– Hung Tzu-ch'eng
The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.
– Manly P. Hall
The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.
– Lao Tzu
The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
– Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
– William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
– William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
