This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
I'm often cast as religious figures, good and bad, such as 'Kingdom Of Heaven.'
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.
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.
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.
And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.
If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
Indeed, the night sky is the part of our environment that's been common to all cultures throughout human history. All have gazed up at the 'vault of heaven' and interpreted it in their own way.
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.
Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
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.
When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
