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

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

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

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

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.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

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

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

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

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

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 don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

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.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

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

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

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

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

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

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

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.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

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

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 fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

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

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

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.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin!

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

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.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.