quotations about Heaven
If you keep your eyes so fixed on Heaven that you never look at the Earth, you will stumble into Hell.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Already in the sacred bowl
I've quaff'd oblivion, and my rapturous soul
Heav'n's harbour gains full sail!
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
"The Dying Christian", Poetical Meditations
Howling is the noise of hell, singing the voice of heaven.
JOHN DONNE
"Sermon LXVI"
Heaven is always taken by storm.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Elizabeth the Queen
Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don’t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
Heaven and Hell make no sense if the majority of humans are a complex mixture of good and evil. There's no reason to receive a reward if you're 57/43--why sit around forever in an elevated version of Club Med? That's almost impossible to contemplate.
NORMAN MAILER
On God
We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.
MAX LUCADO
Experiencing the Heart of Jesus
We speak of Paradise, and we speak of Heaven. At times they seem far off and distant to us. But there is no need for us to change our place, or even planet, in order to enter on these regions. We only need that, when we put off these our bodies, we put off also our present limitations; and thus, in accordance which He has apportioned for us, we enter on those good things He "hath prepared."
ARTHUR FOLEY WINNINGTON-INGRAM
"The Shadow of Heaven", Thoughts on Love and Death
We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now--to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means:
loving as he loves,
helping as he helps,
giving as he gives,
serving as he serves,
rescuing as he rescues,
being with him for all the twenty-four hours,
touching him in his distressing disguise.
MOTHER TERESA
A Gift for God
Regard this world as the place to sow seed for eternity, and after taking such a portion from this world as may give you strength to take the journey to the other world, turn away from whatever is more than this. Realize that the future world is the place for enjoyment and happiness which is eternal, and the land to behold the excellence and beauty of the Lord; and make it your purpose, divine and omniscient grace assisting you, never to cease from the pursuit of them, but to secure as your prey, the phoenix of felicity and happiness.
MOHAMMED AL-GHAZZALI
The Alchemy of Happiness
They that are reconciled unto God, in the frame and temper of their minds, that live according to the Law of Heaven (the everlasting and immutable rule of goodness, righteousness and truth) may truly be said to have begun Heaven while they are upon the earth.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole
One common blessing, as one common soul.
ALEXANDER POPE
Essay on Man
The problem is, even if there is a Heaven how can there be one we can stand forever?
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit is Rich
What if earth
Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein
Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost