In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

Johannes Tauler

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

John Milton

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

George Eliot

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Thomas Carlyle

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Robert Browning

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.

Swami Vivekananda

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Martin Luther

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Paracelsus

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Henry Ward Beecher

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places.

Mark Twain

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Euripides