“All things come from above.”
Omnia desuper
“Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.”
“You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.”
“Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.”
“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.”
“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.”
“But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.”
“To be with God.”
“Heaven for climate, Hell for company.”
“No man can resolve himself into Heaven.”
“Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.”
“The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.”
“Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.”
“In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.”
“Everybody wants to go heaven, but nobody wants to die.”
“On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.”
“Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.”
“I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.”
“Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.”
“I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.”
“Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.”
“Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.”
“Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.”
“If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?”
“What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.”
“Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.”
“Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.”
“We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.”
“Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.”