Quotes of: Heaven Keyword

The Russian male audience, they loved 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door,' and they like my comedies, but the Russian male audience is action, action, action.

Til Schweiger

...human beings dream of life everlasting. But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.

Tennessee Williams

I'd rather have fun, being young and being dumb, than be saved a spot in heaven

Love

I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to heaven You find no policeman there

Woody Guthrie

Our God is an awesome God, he reigns from Heaven above, the most high God of all time.

Werley Nortreus

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

William Shakespeare

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.

Julie Christie

A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.

Reza Aslan

Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social weapon in the hands of the religious institutions. This split in public values produced or was accompanied by, as it was bound to be, an equally artif...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever form we can get it. I suspect that if anyone other than Jesus (Krishna, say, or Buddha) were suddenly put forward as be...

Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

Note, though, something else of great significance about the whole Christian theology of resurrection, ascension, second coming, and hope. This theology was born out of confrontation with the political authorities, out of the conviction that Jesus wa...

Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with frien...

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Heaven, such as it is, is right here on earth. Behold: my revelation: I stand at the door in the morning, and lo, there is a newspaper, in sight like unto an emerald. And holy, holy, holy is the coffee, which was, and is, and is to come. And hark, I ...

Take the Cannoli

He smiled. "I suppose I thought we'd have a madly impractical, terrifyingly modern sort of marriage. One based on love. Not to mention dangerous undertakings and hair's-breadth escapes from burning buildings, high ledges and exploding sewers." "And b...

The Traitor in the Tunnel

…such criticism and mockery are largely beside the point. All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to to intellectual argument or academic criticism. Polls routinely indicate...

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come to no harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow upon him, he bears it as he nee...

Homer

With time and perspective we recognize that such problems in life do come for a purpose, if only to allow the one who faces such despair to be convinced that he really does need divine strength beyond himself, that she really does need the offer of h...

Jeffery R. Holland

It is not the pain that is pleasing to God, child. It is the soul's endurance in faith and hope and love in of bodily afflictions that pleases Heaven.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.

The Celestine Prophecy

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu