Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Heaven

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish Novelist, Poet

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
Samuel Rutherford (1600–61) Scottish Presbyterian Theologian, Author

Heav’n is but the vision of fulfill’d desire. And hell the shadow from a soul on fire.
Omar Khayyam (1048–1123) Persian Mathematician

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

The ink of the scholar and the blood of a martyr are of equal value in heaven.
The Holy Quran Sacred Scripture of Islam

Great blessings come from heaven; small blessings come from man.
Chinese Proverb

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer

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 (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar

Smile… heaven is watching!
African Proverb

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
Leon Battista Alberti (1404–72) Italian Architect, Humanist, Painter, Art Critic

The kingdom of Heaven is within you… Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven and all things will be added unto you.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

He who sees heaven in the water sees the fishes in the trees.
Chinese Proverb

I wonder whether they have rum and Coke in Heaven?. Maybe it’s too mundane a pleasure, but I hope so—as a sundowner. Except, of course, the sun never goes down there. Oh, man, this heaven is going to take some getting used to.
Desmond Tutu (b.1931) South African Clergyman

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar

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 (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker

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 (b.1941) American Singer-songwriter

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.
J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) Scottish Novelist, Dramatist

The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet

In the spiritual world no one is permitted to think and will in one way and speak and act in another.
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) Swedish Mystic, Theologian, Scientist

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.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Jules Renard (1864–1910) French Writer, Diarist

If heaven drops a date, open your mouth.
Chinese Proverb

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) German Philosopher, Physicist

That happy sense of direct relation with Heaven is known evidently to multitudes of human souls of all faiths, and in all lands; evidently often a dream,—demonstrably, as I conceive, often a reality; in all cases dependent on resolution, patience, self-denial, prudence, obedience; of which some pure hearts are capable without effort, and some by constancy.
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.
Dwight L. Moody (1837–99) Christian Religious Leader, Publisher

The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.
Baha’u’llah (1817–92) Founder of the Islamic Baha’i Movement

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.
Samuel Rutherford (1600–61) Scottish Presbyterian Theologian, Author

To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight.
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