Jonathan Swift Quotes About Heaven
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I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.
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Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
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For in that universal call, Few bankers will to heaven be mounters; They'll cry, "Ye shops, upon us fall! Conceal and cover us, ye counters! When other hands the scales shall hold, And they, in men's and angels' sight Produced with all their bills and gold, 'Weigh'd in the balance and found light!'
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
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