#heaven

But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am. ↗

— Eddie Bracken

#beat #excitement #fright #fun #go

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#chinese #country #get #heaven #into

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#each #every #every man #forefathers #heaven

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#alive #because #committed #companionship #had

Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know? ↗

— Candace Cameron

#am #asking #enough #everyone #go

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven. ↗

— Charles Ives

#better #carry #day #does #heaven

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again. ↗

— Will Carleton

#away #back #been #earth #fellow

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#diamond #dust #heaven #jewels

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#between #chasm #deep #fence #gulf

Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell. ↗

— Truman Capote

#hell #hypocrites #love #beauty