HEAVEN QUOTES IV

quotations about Heaven

I dare not think that any supercelestial heaven, or whatsoever else ... was increate and eternal. And as for the place of God before the world created, the finite wisdom of mortal men hath no perception of it; neither can it limit the seat of infinite power, no more than infinite power itself can be limited; for his place is in himself, whom no magnitude else can contain.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

The First Part of the History of the World: Intreating of the Beginning and First Ages of the Same

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The Saviour said He was going to prepare us a place. How wonderful it will be is beyond human computation. Remember that in six days Christ made the heavens and earth and all that in them is.... If He made so many wonders in six days, then what beauties and marvels He has surely prepared during these 1900 years in which He has been preparing our mansions in the Father's House!

JOHN R. RICE

Bible Facts about Heaven

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The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.

BUDDHIST PROVERB


Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves
sad and happy all at the same time
Going away isn't really sad
especially when your going
enables a new kind of presence
to be born.

MACRINA WIEDERKEHR

Seasons of Your Heart

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Aim at heaven and you will get earth "thrown in": aim at earth and you will get neither.

C. S. LEWIS

Mere Christianity

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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

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It is possible that the distance of heaven lies wholly in the veil of flesh, which we now want power to penetrate. A new sense, a new eye, might show the spiritual world compassing us on every side.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts

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Jesus knew -- knew -- that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look? You have to be a son of God to know that kind of stuff.

J. D. SALINGER

Zooey

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The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789

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To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

TOM ROBBINS

Skinny Legs and All

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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


Heaven is homelike, we are told,
To beggars as to kings;
And resurrection is a fashion
Antedating wings.

NELLIE SEELYE EVANS

"Equality"

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While the wish of many individuals is to arrive at heaven, we daily behold them on the way to hell.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!

CARYLL HOUSELANDER

This War is the Passion

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S'pose Heaven's not like a painting that's just hanging there for ever, but more like ... Like the best song anyone ever wrote, but a song you only catch in snatches, while you're alive, from passing cars, or ... upstairs windows when you're lost ...

DAVID MITCHELL

The Bone Clocks


What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Damned

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Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

CONFUCIUS

The Doctrine of the Mean

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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