Home / Topics / Heaven Quotes

Heaven Quotes

Browse 9181 quotes about Heaven.

Heaven Quotes

“Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can do, yet all has been unavailing, and we have only shown we cannot, not we will not, help ourselves; that often just then something comes, almost as if supernaturally, to settle for us, as if our guardian angel took pity on our perplexities, and then at last obtained leave to help us? And if it be so, then what might only be a coincidence becomes a call of Providence, a voice from Heaven, a command.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Sometimes Matter Done Helping Might Lasts Heaven Voice Can Do Worst Angel Pity Command Settling Providence Coincidence Guardian Guardian Angel Perplexity

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.”

Way Heaven Pity Miscellaneous

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.”

Needs Looks Pain Heaven Tears Sorrow Rain Madness Harm Pity Torture Bitterness Dread Distress Harsh Look At Me Anguish Woe Discomfort

Book:Troilus and Cressida

Source: Troilus and Cressida

“But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.”

Men Stills Dies Heaven Christ Teach Lessons Harder Pity

Book:The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus

Source: The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus

“Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.”

People Ifs Believe Humans Enough Feelings Heaven Powerful Atheism Positive Atheism Honestly Pity Appeals Decent Martyr Selfish Gene

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Through heaven and earth God's will moves freely, and I follow it, As color follows light. He overflows The firmamental walls with deity, Therefore with love; His lightnings go abroad, His pity may do so, His angels must, Whene'er He gives them charges.”

Giving May Light Earth Moving Heaven Color Wall Angel Gods Will Pity Providence Lightning Deities Heaven And Earth Overflow

Book:The Poetical Works of

Source: The Poetical Works of

“People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts.”

People Thinking Way Want Heart Seems Certain Heaven Sorrow Devil Rounds Complaining Superiors Pity

Author:Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

“Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?”

Looks Heaven Stars Sky Cold Pity Look Up Luminous Insensitive

Author:I. L. Peretz

“Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.”

Soul Mother Father Heaven Christ Hours Prayer Teach Grace Wife Bears Pity My Soul Sufficient Unconscious Woe

Author:Clara Barton

“None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.”

Heaven Known Logic Wine Charity Loyalty Pity Spells Grapes Shrines

Book:Ironica

Source: Ironica