Heaven Quotes - Page 5

• Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Night, Vegas, Looks

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.233, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Morning, Business, Reality

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• If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

  Will Rogers

  Cute, Death, Loyalty

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• Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Religious, People

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.534, e-artnow

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• Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Lying, Boys

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  "Jesus : Myth Or Reality?". Book by Ian Curtis, 2006.

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• Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Travel, Curiosity

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.574, Univ of California Press

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• Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wicked, Attention, Hell

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, Autumn, Shoes

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 821

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• Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

  Alexander Pope

  Seven, Good Sense

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.385

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• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dream, Democracy, Literature

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.412, Knopf

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Looking For Love, World

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.69, Chinese University Press

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• O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Mad, Temper

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 5, l. [51]

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• I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Earth, Makers

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.244, Harvard University Press

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• Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Doubt, Invention

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 34, 1799.

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  Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Cute, God

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9262, Delphi Classics

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• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Andrea del Sarto" l. 97 (1855)

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• If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?

  Douglas Horton

  Lines, Firsts, Hell

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• But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

  Robert Kennedy

  Powerful, White, Racism

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fall, Sad And Happy, Going Away

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• 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

  Forgiveness, Bridges, Forgiving

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• Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

  John Lubbock

  Romantic, Beauty, Beautiful

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• No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Heart, Going To Heaven, Today

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• Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

  Candace Cameron

  Thinking, Asking, Good Person

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Have Faith, Turns

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