Lectionary Calendar
Saturday, September 28th, 2024
the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Sermon Quotations Archive
Quotations regarding 'Heaven'
By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass, current for the merchandise of heaven.
John Rutledge, American Politician (1739-1800)
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
George Sand, French Novelist (1804-1876)
It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian Clergyman (1452-1498)
You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire!
Gunther Schuller, American Composer (1925- )
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Walter Scott, Scottish Novelist (1771-1832)
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman
He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven, and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights.
Saint Bonaventure Sequoyah, -
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
Anne Sexton, American Poet (1928-1974)
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
William Shakespeare, English Dramatist (1564-1616)
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William Shakespeare, English Dramatist (1564-1616)
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare, English Dramatist (1564-1616)
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare, English Dramatist (1564-1616)
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare, English Dramatist (1564-1616)
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist (1856-1950)
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist (1856-1950)
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist (1856-1950)
You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.
Charles Simeon, English Clergyman
Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
Matthew Simpson, American Clergyman (1811-1884)
In journalistic terms, syndication is equivalent to ascending to heaven on a pillar of cloud.
John Skow, -
Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
Patti Smith, American Musician (1946- )
