Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

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

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

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

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

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

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

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

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

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

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

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

Heaven means to be one with God.

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.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

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.

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

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

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

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.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

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

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

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.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

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

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

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

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

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.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

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

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.