What Is Heaven Quotes

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.

Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.

I can’t remem­ber who said it, but a soul and a heaven must exist because good peo­ple aren’t rewarded enough on Earth. I always liked that idea, if that makes sense.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.

There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven.

I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.

What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven.

[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting.

The gate of heaven is everywhere.

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

Heaven will smile on us again.

Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.

Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Theres heaven in the sweet by and by but there is to be victory in the nasty now and now.

The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.

I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

My idea of Heaven is what we've got right now, right here!-All this beauty and pleasure and fun and inspiration and spirit and fellowship and joy, all of this and more so and more of it!

Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell.

Musicians are the architects of heaven.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

Heaven Has No Favorites

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.

For those who are still merely vegetarian and not yet vegan, I ask, what in heaven's name are you waiting for?

See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices.

Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.

I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a really nice house in heaven - or what? I don't get it.

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.

Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.

You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork.

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!