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“Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.”
William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you; Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields, While, those unhappy partners of your kind Wide-hover round you, like the fowls of heaven, And ask their humble dole.”
James Thomson (poet, born 1700) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When o'er the green undeluged earth Heaven's covenant thou didst shine, How came the world's grey fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign. And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God.”
Thomas Campbell (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we earn with a whole soul's tasking: 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even in our times, despite those who deny God, earth is very close to Heaven.”
Josemaría Escrivá (1902–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.”
Goparaju Ramachandra Rao (1902–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the beginning God created heaven and earth.”
William Tyndale (1494–1536) said by 1536 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“See, there are things that are pre-Flood, but there is no such thing as "prehistoric." We have history from the first day, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." You can't go before that. So there's no such thing as "prehistoric.”
Kent Hovind (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I get to Heaven, which I very much doubt, I will ask of God just one thing, and that is to send Shakespeare back down to earth, and make him sit a University of Madras examination in Shakespeare, just for the pleasure of watching him failing the exam.”
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ancient and Modern: A Journey through the Twentieth Century, 1935-45 BBCTV
“The people with whom I grew up in the Vestmannaeyjar carried heaven within themselves; even if it was sixty fathoms at the end of a rope down a cliff, fowling, they were at home in God's City of Zion.”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.”
Daniel Tosh (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have you wondered why all the windows in heaven were broken? Have you seen the homeless in the grave of God's hand? Do you want to acquaint the larks with the fatuous music of war?”
Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why should inspiration be limited to one past age? If Truth came to Paul 1900 years ago it can come to you today. After all, Heaven is as near to-day, God is as loving and as kind to-day, and truth as abundant to-day, as in the ages when men are said to have possessed inspiration.”
Benjamin Fish Austin (1850–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you have been healed or saved or blessed through TBN and have not contributed to (the) station, you are robbing God and will lose your reward in heaven.”
Paul Crouch (1934–2013) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Praise the Lord, TBN (August 4, 1997)
“Cheeseburger is paradise. Heaven on earth with an onion slice. Not too particular, not too precise. I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise.I like mine with lettuce and tomato, Heinz Fifty-seven and French fried potatoes. Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer. Well, good God Almighty, which way do I steer? For my cheeseburger in paradise.”
Jimmy Buffett (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From China to America to Mecca, forget mandates from Heaven, Jesus, or God. They do not exist. An a-priori mandate, however, does exist from metaphorical Zons here on Earth and across the cosmos.”
Frank R. Wallace (1932–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I doubt not but the fire illuminating heaven on Michelmas eve was seen there – such as I never saw for the time more fearful. God sendeth us such signs but for our erudition.”
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520–1598) first seen 1573 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham, c. 1573-76.
“You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner, and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need.”
Max Lucado (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness — and Love; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties — if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fullness of the Godhead shines.”
Anne Brontë (1820–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God save King Robert! then, say I," vociferated Alan, eagerly grasping the knight's hand. "Sit, sit, Sir Knight; and for the love of heaven, speak more of this most wondrous tale. Erewhile, we hear of this goodly Earl of Carrick at Edward's court, doing him homage, serving him as his own English knight, and now in Scotland--aye, and Scotland's king. How may we reconcile these contradictions?”
Grace Aguilar (1816–1847) said by 1847 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I knew the Spring was come. I knew it even Better than all by this, that through my chase In bush and stone and hill and sea and heaven I seem'd to see and follow still your face. Your face my quarry was. For it I rode, My horse a thing of wings, myself a god.”
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: St. Valentine's Day, from Collected Poems (1914)
“If Nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good. We that are bound by vows and by promotion, With pomp of holy sacrifice and rites, To teach belief in good and still devotion, To preach of heaven's wonders and delights — Yet, when each of us in his own heart looks, He finds the God there far unlike his books.”
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554–1628) said by 1628 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That night the clouds broke, and the moon shone down upon our little ledge; and there, hand in hand, we turned our faces toward heaven and plighted our troth beneath the eyes of God. No human agency could have married us more sacredly than we are wed. We are man and wife, and we are content.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Horatio Townsend An Account of the Visit of Handel to Dublin (1852) p. 93, citing Laetitia Matilda Hawkins Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs vol. 1 (1822).
“Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Human government, the embodied effort of man to rule the world without God, ruled over by "the prince of this world," the devil. Its mission is to execute wrath and vengeance here on earth. Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven.”
David Lipscomb (1831–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to Heaven, and lift thy heart thither.”
Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882) first seen 1848 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sermon XXI: "Heaven the Christian's Home", in Sermons during the Season from Advent to Whitsuntide (Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1848), p. 340.
“Oh, my God, I can't believe it. Out of all the people in the world, What is the likelihood of jumping Out of my life and into your arms? Maybe, baby, I'm just losing my mind, 'Cause this is trouble, but it feels right. Teetering on the edge of Heaven and Hell Is a battle that I cannot fight.”
Adele (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“2. If someone should want to behold the state of his mind, let him deprive himself of all mental representations, and then he shall behold himself resembling sapphire or the colour of heaven. It is impossible to accomplish this without impassibility, for he will need God to collaborate with him and breathe into him the connatural light.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm an atheist, and so I have a philosophical problem with demonology and supporting the mythology of Satan, which involves God and heaven and hell and all that stuff. I'm not just a nonbeliever, I'm an antibeliever - I think it's a destructive philosophy.”
David Cronenberg (born 1943) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: David Cronenberg's Body Language (September 18, 2005)
“God is a flowing and ebbing sea which ceaselessly flows out into all his beloved according to their needs and merits and which flows back with all those upon whom he has bestowed his gifts in heaven and on earth, together with all they possess or are capable of.”
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) said by 1381 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If one would a thumb|right|It is impossible for us in words to describe the ineffable dignity of the soul and we cannot in any way comprehend it prepare an empty place in the depths of the soul there can be no doubt that God must fill it at once. If there were a void on earth the heaven would fall to fill it….”
Johannes Tauler (1300–1361) said by 1361 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“…when I come to work here and every black person that comes to work here they go, 'Oh my God, it's heaven. Here we are. We're represented.' Where everybody's represented. LGBTQ's represented. Black, white, gay, straight, whatever. We're all represented, working hand-in-hand, arm-in-arm.”
Tyler Perry (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On what he hopes for the Tyler Perry Studios in “Tyler Perry tells Gayle King: "I'm ignored in Hollywood" in CBS News (2019 Oct 7)
“Mr. McCarthy, I will not discuss this further with you. You have sat within six feet of me and could have asked me about Fred Fisher. You have seen fit to bring it out. And if there is a God in Heaven it will do neither you nor your cause any good. I will not discuss it further. I will not ask Mr. Cohn any more questions. You, Mr. Chairman, may, if you will, call the next witness.”
Joseph N. Welch (1890–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As cited in: Thomas Doherty, Thomas Patrick Doherty (2013) Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture. p. 207
“God's gift of forgiveness and eternal life in heaven is absolutely free!”
Jack T. Chick (1924–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Was he a sinner? Possibly. But could his class, the bourgeoisie, be condemned as a whole? The Church did not realize how secure he felt when it spoke to him of damnation. Would God send a whole class to hell, the class of the respectable? Who, then, would be in heaven? The common people? That would be hard to imagine!”
Bernard Groethuysen (1880–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lesbian, gay and bisexual Christians will not suffer discrimination in heaven. In the Kingdom of God, as faithful Christians, all enjoy a full and equal citizenship.”
Martyn Percy (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Out of the hierarchies of angels sheen The gentle Gabriel called he from the rest, 'Twixt God and souls of men that righteous been Ambassador is he, forever blest, The just commands of Heaven's Eternal King, 'Twixt skies and earth, he up and down doth bring.”
Edward Fairfax (1580–1635) said by 1635 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you do not act, the world dies, and you with it. Surely survival is worth a little effort? Unless you are so eager to retire to that dismal heaven of your Christian god?”
Melinda M. Snodgrass (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! ... I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians. ... Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits [referring to infants] make lice!”
John Chivington (1821–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brown, Dee (2001) [1970]. "War Comes to the Cheyenne". Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Macmillian. pp. 86–87.
“No man saw the building of the new Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.”
John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While not a panacea, candidly recognizing the absence of any good logical arguments for God’s existence, giving up on divine allies and advocates as well as taskmasters and tormentors, and prizing a humane, reasonable, and brave outlook just might help move this world a bit closer to a heaven on earth.”
John Allen Paulos (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“During the attack, the catapults were busily plied on both sides… ‘Praise be to God for his exaltation of the religion of Muhammad. It is not to be doubted that stones are worshipped by Gabrs,74 but as the stones did no service to them, they only bore to heaven the futility of that worship, and at the same time prostrated their devotees upon earth’…”
Amir Khusrow (1253–1325) first seen 1296 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About Sultan ‘Alau’d-Din Khalji (AD 1296-1316) and his generals conquests in Warangal (Andhra Pradesh) Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, Vol. III, p. 81-85
“Oh my God, what have I gotten myself into?I'm a human corkscrew and all my wine is bloodThey're gonna kill me Mama. They don't like me Bud.So Jesus went to Heaven and he went there awful quick All them people killed him and he wasn't even sickSo come and gather around me my contemporary peersAnd I'll tell you all the story of Jesus, the missing years”
John Prine (1946–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I get to heaven, I'm gonna shake God's hand Thank him for more blessings than one man can stand Then I'm gonna get a guitar and start a rock-n-roll band Check into a swell hotel, ain't the afterlife grand?”
John Prine (1946–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou speakest as a fool, for by the God of Heaven in whose grace I trust and in whom is my firm hope of victory, I would not have one more than I have, even if I could... Dost thou not believe that the Almighty can through this humble little band overcome the pride of these Frenchmen, who boast of their numbers and their strength?”
Henry V of England (1386–1422) first seen 1327 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Answer to Walter Hungerford, who lamented on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt that in addition to the small band which he had there could have had ten thousand of the better archers of England, as recorded in Gesta He…
“Give place to Gentleness in your soul and call its children - Selflessness and Meekness together with Politeness and Good nature. And when you do all this, give thanks to God for His help to guard you from evil and to place you in His abode in safety. Sing and praise the Lord in your souls, because your salvation is reality and Heaven is your home.”
Peter Deunov (1864–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is one of those sunsets made glorious by the pollution of a congested city. Someone has to say it and it might as well be me - Nature's own work pales in comparison. The same goes for mass destruction. One day we'll all be basking in the glow of a nuclear winter and God, won't it be heaven on the eyes!”
Steve Toltz (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is the way I would have thee walk in if thou dost intend to be a solid Christian philosopher. Thou must --- as Agrippa saith --- "live to God and the angels," reject all things which are "contrary to Heaven": otherwise thou canst have no communion with superiors. Lastly, "be single, not solitary." Avoid the multitude --- as well of passions as persons. p.55”
Thomas Vaughan (philosopher) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source