Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Pullman

And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.

Philip Pullman

We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.

Queen Elizabeth II

For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.

Ramakrishna

Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

Liam Gallagher

I live for now, not for what happens after I die. I'm going to hell, not heaven. The devil has all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns.

Laurie Anderson

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

Therese of Lisieux

In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.

Therese of Lisieux

I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

Therese of Lisieux

It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.

Leslie Nielsen

It doesn't really matter where I go (Heaven or Hell). I'll have plenty of friends in both places.

Lew Wallace

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Levon Helm

Music is the language of heaven.

Joseph Campbell

Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans.

Karl Popper

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

Julio Cortazar

[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting.

Jules Renard

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Oscar Wilde

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Kathy Acker

After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other

Paracelsus

In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.

Katharine Hepburn

I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.

George MacDonald

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

Emanuel Swedenborg

This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love

Emanuel Swedenborg

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Emanuel Swedenborg

A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.

John Bunyan

Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.

John Bunyan

And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!

Joel Osteen

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.