What Is Heaven Quotes
I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.
The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.
Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?
The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.
No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
Let anyone who has zeal for God come with me! Let us fight for our brothers! Let Heaven's will be done!
Something of eternal significance transpired there. Not only was the calendar of the world changed, but heaven itself and eternity were affected.
Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.
Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.
Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.
Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.
If chocolate is a foretaste of heaven, what does it mean that chocolate is freely available to all?
Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.
That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.
Confidence begets confidence. Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone. Courage in danger is half the battle.
But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.
The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will
It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.
The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.
To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.
Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable