You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
Emily Bronte

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
St. Jerome

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
Charles Baudelaire

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot

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

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
Elbert Hubbard

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas Hardy

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
John Burroughs

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
Herman Melville

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Jules Renard

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Dante Alighieri

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
Max Lucado

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Galileo Galilei

Sincerity is the way to heaven.
Mencius

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
Mencius