Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
~ Unknown
We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.
~ Zig Ziglar
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
~ Doris Day
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
~ Frank Knox
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
~ Galileo Galilei
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
~ John Burroughs
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
~ Epictetus
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
~ Thomas Hardy
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
~ George Sand
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
~ Izaak Walton
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
~ Jonathan Edwards
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
~ Robert Kennedy
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
~ George Eliot
I can't imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.
~ Rick Warren
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
~ Zebulon Pike
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
~ Matthew Henry
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.
~ Robin Williams
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
~ Abraham Lincoln
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
~ John Updike
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
~ Samuel Butler
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
~ John Lyly
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
~ Mark Twain
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
~ Clint Eastwood
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
~ Plautus
A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
~ Margaret Thatcher
My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.
~ Lea Michele
No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
~ John Mason Brown
Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
~ Boethius
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
~ James A. Baldwin
