#heaven

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#heaven #paradise #environmentalism

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven. ↗

— Lactantius

#both #common #heaven #hint #jupiter

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#die #fight #fighting #go #god

The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#eye #gazes #heaven #just #little

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#fallen #god #heaven #his #infinite

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#earth #gift #given #god #heaven

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#being #beverly #beverly hills #driving #early

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news. ↗

— Rita Moreno

#coming home #heaven #home #idea #news

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#ancestors #bliss #conjugal #depend #due

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death." ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#comes #condition #death #earth #heart