Heaven Earth Quotes

Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise? ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne

Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth. ~ Mark Nepo

This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven. ~ Stephen Charnock

Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people. ~ Zengzi

This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water. ~ Wendell Berry

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven ~ St. Jerome

Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring,
With sudden passion languishing,
Teaching barren moors to smile,
Painting pictures mile on mile,
Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths
Whence a smokeless incense breathes. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. ~ Samuel Johnson

That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now. ~ James Anthony Froude

Oh, the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth! ~ Jonathan Edwards

When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance. ~ Shams Tabrizi

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home. ~ C.S. Lewis

It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace
not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone. ~ Thomas A Kempis

There is a god within us, and the heavens
Have intercourse with earth; from realms above
That spirit comes. ~ Ovid

Be aware that the difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude. ~ Ken Keyes Jr.

Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light:
Such comfort as do lusty young men feel
When well-apparell'd April on the heel
Of limping winter treads, even such delight
Among fresh female buds shall you this night
Inherit at my house; hear all, all see,
And like her most whose merit most shall be: ~ William Shakespeare

The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable. ~ Confucius

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth. ~ James Anthony Froude

The quickest way to release heaven on earth is to worship. Worship is the main activity of heaven and the destiny of all created things. ~ Jeremy Riddle

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on. ~ James A. Garfield

Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever. ~ Laozi

The Son of God did not want to be seen and found in heaven. Therefore he descended from heaven into this humility and came to us in our flesh, laid himself into the womb of his mother and into the manger and went on to the cross. This was the ladder that he placed on earth so that we might ascend to God on it. This is the way you must take. ~ Martin Luther

Zorba is beautiful, but something is missing. The earth is his, but the heaven is missing. He is earthly, rooted, like a giant cedar, but he has no wings. He cannot fly into the sky. He has roots but no wings. ~ Rajneesh

There is no heaven, there is no hell, except here on Earth. ~ Anton Szandor LaVey

And I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven. ~ James Lee Burke

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light. ~ Rumi

It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step, foot by foot, hand over hand, we are slowly and often painfully to mount the ladder that rests on earth, and rises to heaven. ~ Thomas Guthrie

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power. ~ Joseph Joubert

There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth. ~ Robert Browning

God gave you a heart to love with, not to hate with, God gave you the ability to create Heaven on earth, not Hell. ~ Leon Brown

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma. ~ John Stuart Blackie

It's 'Heaven Begun', for the grateful on earth. ~ Solanus Casey

The kingdom of heaven is within us. The Jewish idea was a kingdom of heaven upon this earth. That was not the idea of Jesus. ~ Swami Vivekananda

Heaven is a pretty practical, common sense, down-to-earth place! ~ David Berg

Allah was when there was nothing else than Him, and His Throne was upon the water, and He wrote in the Reminder (al-dhikr) all things, and He created the heavens and the earth. ~ Ibn Ata Allah

Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell. ~ Francois Lelord

Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth. ~ Rumi

Heaven is where God dwells. It is a specific place; ... a place of unparalleled tranquility and beauty. It includes the new heaven and new earth. ~ Paul P. Enns

The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines. ~ John Milton

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful. ~ George Eliot

The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human. ~ Pablo Casals

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides. ~ G.K. Chesterton

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth. ~ John Philip Sousa

Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him. ~ John Newton

Indeed, the point of the famous story about the king and the waves, as originally told, was not to illustrate his stupidity, but rather to prove what a good Christian he had been. 'Let all the world know', says a damp Cnut, having conspicuously failed to stop the tide from rising, 'that the power of kings is empty and worthless, and there is no king worthy of the name save Him by whose will heaven, earth and sea obey eternal laws.'2 ~ Marc Morris

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~ Henry David Thoreau

When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again. ~ Martin Luther

There is a difference between being mad and being surrounded by retards. ~ Blanco

Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth To-day encircle all the earth, And bind the nations with the love That Jesus brought from heaven above. ~ Maud Lindsay

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me. ~ Emily Dickinson

The more of heaven there is in our lives, the less of earth we shall covet. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth. ~ Richard Crashaw

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. ~ Plato

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth ~ Bernard Of Clairvaux

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new. ~ Wilkie Collins

What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought! ~ Max Lucado

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful. ~ Hosea Ballou

I don't care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth. ~ Giordano Bruno

He looked beyond. He looked to the peoples of the Earth and saw the destruction of the family because of the lack of children. Paul VI was courageous. He was a good pastor. He warned his sheep about the wolves that were approaching, and from the heavens he blesses us today. ~ Pope Francis

To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini

You stand exactly in the middle, poised between heaven and earth, a human conductor for the energy that seeks to flow between these two polarities. ~ Margot Anand

A man once said that the pinnacle of success Was when you've finally lost interest In money, compliments, and publicity A noble enough idea I suppose How on Earth he does this heaven only knows I know I need a lot more of all three of those Before I'll ever have the nerve to turn up my nose At any money, or compliments, or publicity ~ Todd Snider

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell. ~ Karl Popper

Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven. ~ Billy Graham

He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven ~ Thiruvalluvar

Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~ Steve Stevaert

Bless be the ones who serve others. They are the ones who find heaven on earth. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth. ~ Charles Dickens

Earth is heaven. Or hell. Your choice. ~ Wayne W. Dyer

Even the worst neighborhood of Heaven will be better than the best neighborhood of the fanciest town on Earth! ~ David Berg

It is a time to get our alignment with our dreams and our destiny in order, so we can stand vertical in the season and the dispensations of the glory. For this glory is not like the previous glory - this glory demands an alignment of Heaven and earth so all that is prepared can be released and revealed. ~ Chuck Pierce

Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared. ~ Matthew Henry

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. ~ Nicolas Caussin

The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth. ~ Ignatius Of Loyola

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The principles of earth are the same law that governs heaven ~ Sunday Adelaja

Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

The First Command was to 'Multiply' and the Prophet taught us that Dominion & powr in the great Future would be Comensurate with the no [number] of 'Wives Childin & Friends' that we inheret here and that our great mission to earth was to Organize a Neculi of Heaven to take with us. To the increase of which there would be no end. ~ Benjamin F. Johnson

When you awaken, you will see that this is Heaven on Earth, and everything in physical form is the body of God. ~ Leonard Jacobson

We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven. ~ Alister E. McGrath

God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home. ~ Charles Spurgeon

When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you. ~ Max Lucado

The law of heaven and earth is life for life. ~ Lord Byron

There's no heaven on earth. God would have to guide her through the problems. ~ Jennifer Hudson Taylor

I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here. ~ Emily Dickinson

All arrangements that are carried out between heaven and earth are carried out through angels. ~ Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe. ~ Fanny Kemble

A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee. ~ William Shakespeare

I'm the one and only. In heaven and on Earth ~ Miyavi

Many things between Heaven and Earth fill me with wonder; but of all of these, the least wondrous to me are the wonders of Religion. ~ Karlheinz Deschner

Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey ~ Cnut The Great

'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars and constellations for my pearls and jewels; and all things assisting as the mourners. Will not the provisions for my funeral be complete? What could you add to them?' ~ Zhuangzi

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven. ~ St. Jerome

Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider, nothing is more pleasant, nothing fuller, and nothing better in heaven or on earth, for love is born of God and cannot rest except in God, Who is created above all things. ~ Thomas A Kempis

Heaven is eternal, earth everlasting. they endure this way because they do not live for themselves. in the same way, the wise person puts himself last, and thereby finds himself first, holds himself outside, and thereby remains at the center, abandons himself, and is thereby fulfilled. ~ Laozi