Laurence Sterne Quotes About Heaven
-
Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.
→ -
Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.
→ -
The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
→ -
Upon the present theological computation, ten souls must be lost for one that is saved. At which rate of reckoning, heaven can raise but its cohorts while hell commands its legions. From which sad account it would appear, that, though our Saviour had conquered death by the resurrection, he had not yet been able to overcome sin by the redemption.
→ -
The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation.
→
Related Authors
-
Daniel Defoe Writer -
Virginia Woolf Writer -
James Joyce Novelist -
Francois Rabelais Writer -
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Novelist -
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Novelist -
Charles Dickens Writer -
Samuel Johnson Writer -
Samuel Richardson Writer -
Denis Diderot Philosopher -
Vladimir Nabokov Novelist -
William Makepeace Thackeray Novelist -
Miguel de Cervantes Novelist -
Henry Fielding Novelist -
Jonathan Swift Pamphleteer -
Thomas Love Peacock Novelist -
Leo Tolstoy Writer -
Tobias Smollett Poet -
Honore de Balzac Novelist -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer