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I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.