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Quotes About Heaven

This is really just a rental home for me here on earth, my true home is up in Heaven, and my hope lies in that. I'm here to live a good life and get as many people as I can to go to Heaven with me
~ Scotty McCreery
Union with God is really possible. Unity with God I presume, is what is meant by Heaven, but that too is available in this life for the humble of heart.
~ Thomas Keating
To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
~ Tom Robbins
Your serenity matters to heaven. God's presence encapsulates your life.
~ Max Lucado
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.
~ Rebecca Harding Davis
Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but without the drawbacks - with all the assets but none of the liabilities.
~ David Berg
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
~ Frederick Buechner
Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.
~ Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.
~ Fanny Kemble
Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
~ Alexander Pope
This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
~ Alice Walker
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
~ John Dryden
While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.
~ John Selden
Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
~ Joseph Addison
You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory.
~ Lady Gaga
Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.
~ Laurence Sterne
You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.
~ Therese of Lisieux
A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
~ Victor Hugo
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
~ Teresa of Avila
Oh, there at last, life's trials past, / We'll meet our loved ones more, / Whose feet have trod the path to God, -- / Not lost, but gone before.
~ Caroline Norton