Pastoral Resources

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.