Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940) Lithuanian-American Anarchist, Feminist
Doctors are the signposts to heaven.
—German Proverb
Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul may keep the path, but will not reach the goal; while he who walks in love may wander far, yet God will bring him where the blessed are.
—Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852–1933) American Author, Educator, Clergyman
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
Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter… This is it… If you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here’s the place to have the experience.
—Joseph Campbell (1904–87) American Author, Mythologist
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 Theologian, Author
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 (1866–1946) English Novelist, Historian, Social Thinker
Heaven for climate, Hell for company.
—J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) Scottish Novelist, Dramatist
A single prayer moves heaven.
—Japanese Proverb
If God hath made this world so fair, where sin and death abound, how beautiful, beyond compare, will paradise be found.
—James Montgomery (1771–1854) Scottish Poet, Journalist, Hymnist
To be with God.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
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
Heaven to me’s a fair blue stretch of sky, earth’s jest a dusty road.
—John Masefield (1878–1967) English Poet, Novelist, Playwright
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 (1898–1963) Irish-British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
—David Hare (b.1947) English Dramatist, Director, Film-Maker
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 (428 BCE–347 BCE) Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
The “kingdom of Heaven” is a condition of the heart—not something that comes “upon the earth” or “after death.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
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 (1890–1957) American Novelist, Journalist, Poet, Essayist
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 (1830–86) American Poet
If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.
—C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) Irish-British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
There are treasures laid up in the heart,—treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death when he leaves this world.
—Buddhist Teaching
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 net of heaven is large and wide, but it lets nothing through.
—Chinese Proverb
Heavenly music is interpreted differently by everyone.
—Chinese Proverb
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907) English Poet, Ascetic
The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.
—Samuel Rutherford (1600–61) Scottish Theologian, Author
Heaven and earth shall never meet.
—African Proverb
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
No man can resolve himself into Heaven.
—Dwight L. Moody (1837–99) Christian Religious Leader, Publisher
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