What Is Heaven Quotes

If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

Frst of all that I would crave as the richest of heaven's blessings would be wisdom from my Heavenly Father bestowed daily.

If heaven had a height, you would be that tall

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

Prayers truly from the heart open all doors in Heaven.

At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.

Don't try to get all your rewards on earth. There are more rewards in Heaven.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

Lord Jesus, receive my spirit . . . I see the heavens open and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.

In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here.

Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it.

The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it.

Entrust yourself entirely to God. He is a Father and a most loving Father at that, who would rather let heaven and earth collapse than abandon anyone who trusted in him.

Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession.

If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! [...] I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.

I did not know that Ramos would prefer to send his ball up to the heavens.

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

I believe in heaven more than hell, lessons more than jail. In the ghetto, let love prevail with a story to tell. My eyes see the glory, and well, The world waiting for me to yell, "I Have A Dream!"

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings.

The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing

The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.

At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go.

You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love

We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.

It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

This boy turkied my Thanksgiving, but I won't let him Grinch my Christmas. -Dean Hughes (Midway to Heaven)