If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.
Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
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.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.
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.
Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.
I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.
Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
When I've pictured what Heaven would be like, I've always imagined myself free to explore the outer reaches of space.
So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad.
My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.
Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
