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"Mercy is not in favor in my heavens today,” says Vashanka, unforgiving and combative, folding vast arms and spearing Harmony with lightning that crackles from his gaze.

Janet Morris

Heaven, War, Mercy, theomachy
2

Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.

C. S. Lewis

Heaven
3

All things come from above.

Heaven
4

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Doug Horton

Heaven
5

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus Christ

Heaven, Poverty and The Poor
6

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.

Rupert Brooke

Heaven
7

Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. -- Mathew

Heaven
8

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

C. S. Lewis

Heaven
9

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Francis Quarles

Heaven
10

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

J. M. Barrie

Heaven
11

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

Robert Frost

Heaven
12

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

Mark Twain

Heaven
13

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

Emily Dickinson

Heaven
14

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Emma Goldman

Heaven
15

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven
16

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Christopher Morley

Heaven
17

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

Nadine Gordimer

Heaven
18

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

Doug Horton

Heaven
19

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

C. S. Lewis

Heaven
20

In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.

Alexander Maclaren

Heaven
21

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Heaven
22

It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.

Heaven
23

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heaven
24

Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.

William Blake

Heaven
25

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

Dwight L. Moody

Heaven
26

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

David Hare

Heaven
27

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Heaven
28

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Jules Renard

Heaven
29

Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all else shall be added unto you. -- Mathew

Heaven
30

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

H. G. Wells

Heaven
31

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the earth is shows his handiwork.

Heaven
32

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Evelyn Waugh

Heaven
33

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

Doug Horton

Heaven
34

The kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart --not something that comes upon the earth or after death.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Heaven
35

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Thomas Hardy

Heaven
36

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Heaven
37

Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Heaven
38

To be with God.

Confucius

Heaven
39

To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight.

Heaven
40

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

Ernest Hemingway

Heaven
41

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Plato

Heaven
42

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

Pearl S. Buck

Heaven
43

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

Dwight L. Moody

Heaven
44

Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

Bob Dylan

Heaven
45

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Jonathan Swift

Heaven
46

When we die and go to Heaven, our Maker is not going to say, Why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? The only thing we're going to be asked at that precious moment is Why didn't you become you?

Heaven
47

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

James Joyce

Heaven

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"Mercy is not in favor in my heavens today,” says Vashanka, unforgiving and combative, folding vast arms and spearing Harmony with lightning that crackles from his gaze.

Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.

All things come from above.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.

Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. -- Mathew

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

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

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

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

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

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

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all else shall be added unto you. -- Mathew

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the earth is shows his handiwork.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

The kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart --not something that comes upon the earth or after death.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.

To be with God.

To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

When we die and go to Heaven, our Maker is not going to say, Why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? The only thing we're going to be asked at that precious moment is Why didn't you become you?

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.