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“If I were someone else, I’d try to console you with a fairy tale like the one they tell about Santa Claus every Christmas. I’d tell you that Mommy’s going to be taken up to heaven to live with God and the angels, and from there I’ll look down and watch over you. The truth is better than this—partly because it is the truth.”
Daniel Quinn (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Giving will never take any persons to Heaven. When you give, you have access to God's inexhaustible recourses here on Earth.”
Prosper Afam Amah (born 1973) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fresh Oil Programme. Bishop Prosper Amah Reveals Inspiration Behind the Theme of the March Edition. (March 2022) Advent Cable Network Nigeria
“She was standing over the candles and with both hands covering her face she had softly poured out her heart to God in heaven. ("Breaking the Fast")”
Esther Kreitman (1891–1954) said by 1954 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some would like to combine God and the world, conversations and prayers, theaters and church visits, and feel sure of heaven. Oh, no! This is a deception. (letter 31)”
Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (1838–1862) said by 1862 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God, who understands and forgives everything, will refuse to open the door of heaven to me if I have made a mistake in French. (September 6, C.E.1897; Vergani, p. 132)”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We always like to think what our future will be, and that's hopefully heaven, but we just get in and do what you're called to do. If you're doing your normal ministry, if you’re serving God's people and getting involved in the life of the Church, then I suppose these callings can follow.”
Kenneth Michael Howell (born 1958) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr Ken Howell asks for prayers as he prepares to become a bishop (2017) Catholic Leader
“God weighs a soul on a pair of scales. In one of the dishes is the soul, and in the other, the tears of those who weep for it. If nobody cries, the soul goes down to Hell. If there are enough tears, and they are sufficiently heartfelt, it rises up to Heaven...People who are missed by other people, they are the ones who go to Paradise. Paradise is the space we occupy in other people's hearts.”
José Eduardo Agualusa (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God weighs souls on a pair of scales. In one of the dishes is the soul, and in the other, the tears of those who weep for it. If nobody cries, the soul goes straight down to hell. If there are enough tears and they are sufficiently heartfelt, it rises up to heaven.”
José Eduardo Agualusa (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They were able to bear witness to their faith even in the difficult times of the forced closure of our church. The heroic testimony of the faith of our ancestors, to the point of martyrdom, and their intercession in heaven have contributed to the fact that in the Greek Catholic Church of Slovakia we are able to thank God for the abundance of priestly vocations.”
Ján Babjak (born 1953) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: - H. Exc. Rev. Mons. Ján BABJAK, S.I., Metropolitan Archbishop of PreÂšov of the Catholics of Byzantine Rite, President of the Council of the Slovak Church (SLOVAKIA) (11 October 2012) Press Office of the Holy See
“Buddhists try to escape from their life, while Christians attach greater importance to their life in heaven than to that on earth. As for believers of Tenrikyo, however, the greatest emphasis is always put on this life on earth. Neither life nor death can exist independently of God the Parent.”
Fukaya Tadamasa (1912–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The kingdom of heaven consists of real, confident, and loving union with God, in the cleaving of our souls to Him and their rest in Him. We have to assert this fact and convince ourselves of it in the face of everything which threatens to trouble, oppress, or overwhelm us.”
Ottokár Prohászka (1858–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meditations On The Gospels (1951)
“The Lord came all the way from heaven to earth for us, so we can surely go the short distance from the castle to Eisenach for Him! ... We must not sadden God with sullen looks. Whatever we do, we must do gladly.”
Elizabeth of Hungary (1207–1231) said by 1231 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Schmidt-Pauli (tr. Olga Marx, 1932), p. 109
“Woman's empire, holier, more refined, Moulds, moves and sways the fall'n but God-breathed mind, Lifting the earth-crushed heart to hope and heaven.”
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The poem hangs on the berry-bush, When comes the poet's eye; The street begins to masquerade Where Shakespeare passes by. The Christ sees white in Judas’ heart, And loves his traitor well; The God, to angel his new heaven, Explores his lowest hell.”
William Channing Gannett (1840–1923) first seen 1885 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: We See as We Are", in Unity: Freedom, Fellowship and Character in Religion, vol. 16, no. 5 (October 3, 1885), p. 58
“You banned me from Twitter, God bans you from Heaven.”
Terry A. Davis (1969–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Orthodox Church with its divine service educates us to be citizens of heaven by teaching us every virtue, which is exemplified by the life of the Mother of God and all the saints, and by cleansing, sanctifying, and deifying us in the sacraments.”
John of Kronstadt (1829–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As long as the West upholds an image of the free human being within an integrated vision of God, heaven, and earth, esotericism will undoubtedly remain a feature of its intellectual and religious landscape.”
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (1953–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Silence also enhances testimony. Silence does not prove, argue, or demonstrate; it only testifies. Yet, despite this, or perhaps because of it, it possesses an unusual power. “Why are you crying out so loudly?” God said to Moses. Yet Moses was silent. “So much,” commented Kierkegaard, “can silence cry out to heaven.” (p. 93)”
Massimo Baldini (1947–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(About the Assumption of Mary) She who was conceived without spot and borne without pain, who became mother without loss of virginity, who placed God in the world, who died without suffering, was also preserved from corruption; and we believe she lives in heaven with her body. It is piously believed.”
Hugh of Saint Victor (1096–1141) said by 1141 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hugh of Saint Victor, Miscellanea, 1.VI, c. 125, PL, 177, 808. As reported in Joseph Duhr, SJ, The Glorious Assumption of the Mother of God, translated by John Manning Frances, SJ, Pç.J. Kenedy & Sons, New York, June 19…
“The era of merely studying philosophy or religion is over. Practicing God’s Teachings is required. Without practice, you can never go towards Heaven.”
Sayo Kitamura (1900–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the histories in the Bible were written to teach us good things, and to show us how we must love and obey God, that we may go to heaven when we die, and be happy there for ever.”
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787–1851) said by 1851 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“According to the books I've read on the subject, Satanism is a belief system where the noblest of men are God, nature is the holiest of holy spirits, common sense would be the one commandment, and Heaven and Hell exist right here on Earth.”
Nick Bougas (born 1955) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speak of the Devil, 1993, 3 minutes in
“Compassionate Saviour! We welcome Thee to our world, We welcome Thee to our hearts. We bless Thee for the Divine goodness Thou hast brought from heaven; for the souls Thou hast warmed with love to man, and lifted up in love to God; for the efforts of divine philanthropy which Thou hast inspired; and for that hope of a pure celestial life, through which Thy disciples triumph over death.”
William Ellery Channing (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O, for a voice of power to arouse the human spirit from its death in life of animality, to quicken it with a fit consciousness of its own nature, to lift it to an adequate comprehension of the purposes for which the sublime thoughts of God, of duty, of disinterested love, of heaven are opened within!”
William Ellery Channing (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Compassionate Saviour! We welcome Thee to our world. We welcome Thee to our hearts. We bless Thee for the Divine goodness Thou hast brought from heaven; or the souls Thou hast warmed with love to man, and lifted up in love to God; the efforts of divine philanthropy which Thou hast inspired; and for that hope of a pure celestial life, through which Thy disciples triumph over death.”
William Ellery Channing (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Prophet said that God has declared, ‘I am not contained in aught above or below, I am not contained in earth or sky or even In highest heaven, know this for a surety, O beloved, Yet am I contained in the believer’s heart, If ye seek Me, search in such hearts.’”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are the family of the Lord and His sucking babes, The Prophet said ‘The people are God’s family,’ He who sends forth the rain from heaven, Can He not also provide our daily bread?”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sir king, I have been often accused of harbouring traitorous designs against you, but, as God in heaven is just and true, may this morsel of bread choke me if even in thought I have ever been false to you.”
Godwin, Earl of Wessex (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage,--the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.”
Richard Hooker (1554–1600) said by 1600 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) said by 1850 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“God 's in his heaven: All 's right with the world.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) said by 1891 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“You are blinded and you serve the God of the Jews, who is not the God of love but the God of hatred. Why don't you listen to Christ Himself, who said to the Jews: "Ye are of your father the devil!”
Julius Streicher (1885–1946) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 21 April 1932, speech in Nuremberg, Herkulessaal ("Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938)
“Christ was a Jew, and God, he is supposed to have made the universe. That's a little far-fetched because if God made the world, who made God?”
Julius Streicher (1885–1946) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Leon Goldensohn (6 April 1946), from The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately (2004)
“No one laughs at God in a hospital, No one laughs at God in a war, No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor...”
Regina Spektor (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fact is that unless you experience something for yourself it does not exist for you. If God exists you must have the experience of God in the moment; otherwise you are absent and God cannot exist for you.”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many mystics have said, and it is true, that anything you see is not God. Anything you think is not God, neither are visions, lights, moving objects or anything else. Any sensation or feeling is not God. They are all the products of the creation or your imagination.”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beauty is the only uncreated thing you can experience apart from God. Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not stay still and you cannot make it stay still. It is your master and it separates you from beauty and God. So to experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God bless the King! (I mean our faith's defender!) God bless! (No harm in blessing) the Pretender. But who Pretender is, and who is King, God bless us all! That's quite another thing!”
John Byrom (1692–1763) said by 1763 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never believed in a God. [...] There may have been times when I wondered if there might be a God, but it always seemed to me wildly implausible that a God worth worshipping could allow the Holocaust to occur.”
Peter Singer (born 1946) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview, as cited by Dan Goldberg "Peter Singer: is he really the most dangerous man in the world?", The Jewish Chronicle (24 November 2016)
“God is in the bowels of thy brother; refresh them, when he needs it, and then you give your alms in the presence of God, and to God; and He feels the relief which thou providest for thy brother.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1650 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 1, section 3
“Remember that zeal, being an excrescence of divine love, must in no sense contradict any action of love. Love to God includes love to our neighbour; and therefore no pretence of zeal for God’s glory must make us uncharitable to our brother; for that is just so pleasing to God as hatred is an act of love.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1650 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holy Living (1650), ch. 4, section 3.
“The word "God" does not and cannot admit of any restriction, for the simple reason that God is "all that is purely principial", hence also − and a fortiori − "Beyond-Being"; one may not know this or may deny it, but it cannot be denied that God is "That which is supreme", hence That which nothing can surpass.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To love God does not mean to cultivate a sentiment − that is to say, something we enjoy without knowing whether God enjoys it − but to eliminate from the soul what prevents God from entering it.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To fear God is first of all to see, on the level of action, consequences in causes, sanction in sin, suffering in error; to love God is first to choose God, that is to say, to prefer what brings one nearer Him over what estranges from Him.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Faith is to say "yes" to God. When man says "yes" to God, God says "yes" to man.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the will of God, and we must submit; but I call my God to witness that I have done all that in me lay to save the city, utterly desperate as I knew the attempt to be. When I took in hand the defence of these oppressed Christians, I made an alliance with the mightiest of all Potentates—the God of Hosts, who is able to save us, if He choose.”
William the Silent (1533–1584) first seen 1573 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To his brother Louis at the Siege of Harlem (1573), as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison, p. 68
“The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.”
John Templeton (1912–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can never enter the kingdom of God with hardness against any one, for God is love, and if you love God you will love one another.”
Ann Lee (1736–1784) said by 1784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Having made an expiation for sins, He is set down on God's right hand for ever. There is no more that even Immanuel can do. This is Love's extremest effort, God's last and greatest gift, God's own sacrifice. Can there be any escape for those who neglect so great salvation?”
James Hamilton (1814–1871) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source