Quotations The Best Quotes About Heaven

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A list of the best heaven quotes and sayings, including the names of each speaker or author when available. This list is sorted by popularity, so only the most famous heaven quotes are at the top. The authors of these historic heaven quotes are displayed next to each quote, so if you see one you like be sure to check out other inspirational heaven quotes from that same writer.

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

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

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

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10 2

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

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9 2

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.

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10 3

Heaven for climate, Hell for company. J. M. Barrie

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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

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8 3

To be with God. Confucius

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

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

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

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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

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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

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4 0

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

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7 4

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

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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

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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

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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

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5 3

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

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4 2

Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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4 2

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing. Friedrich Nietzsche

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3 1

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

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3 1

To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight.

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3 2

"Fury from the heavens; fury at the gods – inseparable." Janet Morris, Chris Morris

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3 2

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

1 19 3 Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. Henry Ward Beecher

2 12 2 Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. -- Mathew

3 9 1 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Jesus Christ

4 10 2 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the earth is shows his handiwork.

5 9 2 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.

6 10 3 Heaven for climate, Hell for company. J. M. Barrie

7 8 2 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

8 8 3 To be with God. Confucius

9 7 2 Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close. Robert Frost

10 7 2 Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all else shall be added unto you. -- Mathew

11 7 3 We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. Pearl S. Buck

13 4 0 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

14 4 0 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

15 7 4 Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell. Ralph Waldo Emerson

16 4 1 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

17 3 0 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

18 3 0 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

19 5 3 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

20 4 2 Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

21 4 2 In Heaven all the interesting people are missing. Friedrich Nietzsche

22 3 1 Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither. C. S. Lewis

23 3 1 To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight.

24 3 2 "Fury from the heavens; fury at the gods – inseparable." Janet Morris, Chris Morris

25 3 2 You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. James Joyce

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