Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

What we live by we die by.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

A fool and his money are soon elected.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

Many readers fail to realize this, but ‚The Color Purple‘ is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one’s original God: the earth and nature.