Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Frederic Amiel

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Gerald Durrell

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.

Wilkie Collins

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

James Joyce

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

Friedrich Schiller

We must bear what Heaven sends.

Friedrich Schiller

Innocence has a friend in heaven.

Friedrich Schiller

Have faith! where'er thy bark is driven, 'The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, Know this! God rules the host of heaven, The inhabitants of earth.

Jon Bon Jovi

Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.