Quotes About Heaven

The heaven in which the Christian by anticipation dwells is not the cosmical heaven, it is a thoroughly redemptive heaven, a heaven become what it is through the progressive upbuilding and enrichment pertaining to the age-long work of God in the sphere of redemption.

Heaven, so to speak, has received time and history into itself, no less than time has received unchangeableness and eternity into itself.

The love of heaven must drive out the inordinate love of what is earthly.

En toch. 'Opgroeien in deze hemel op aarde was als leven in een plastic zak,' schreef hij. 'Er heerste een verstikkend gevoel van opsluiting, alsof je voortdurend je eigen lucht inademde. Door te veel orde en te weinig risico's werd het leven benauwd en triviaal – en dat terwijl dit een wereld van vrijheid en ongekende kansen heette te zijn.

Mirarte es como entrar por fin por las puertas del cielo

Have you ever wondered what a witness is? It's someone who has died, who lives in heaven and watches over the lives of those she loved. That's what I do. I watch you. I cheer you on. I hurt when you hurt.

One fox in the henhouse. In two days, he'll try to eat his mouse. Two days have passed. Today is the day. Anytime now. Three, yes, three warnings will come. By four five six, you'll be glum. Look, look, look, for the seven. Eight, nine, Ten is in heaven...

Heaven built on earth by human hands is not the same as eternal life. Again, Christianity always has to be more than a cultural religion.

He already had one foot in the winter of heaven. He was going to be whisked up.

Try tropic for your balm,Try storm,And after storm, calm.Try snow of heaven, heavy, soft, and slow,Brilliant and warm.Nothing will help, and nothing do much harm.

But manly sette the world on six and sevene;And if thow deye a martyr, go to hevene!

For in the sterres, clerer than is glas,Is writen, God woot, whoso koude it rede,The deeth of every man.

That Paradis stood formed in her yën.

Woyzeck Yes, Captain, virtue! That I haven't figured out yet. I'm just a poor guy. The likes of us are wretched in this world and the next. If we ever got to heaven, we'd have to help make the thunder.

Unsereins ist doch einmal unselig in der und der andern Welt, ich glaub´ wenn wir in Himmel kämen, so müssten wir donnern helfen.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

We do not believe that the heavens are sealed over our heads, but that the same Father who loved and cherished the children of Israel loves and cherishes us. We believe that we are as much in need of the assistance of our Heavenly Father in the directing of our lives as they were. We know that in the day and age in which we live the seal has been broken, and God has again spoken from the heavens.

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

To drift is to be in hell; to be in heaven is to steer.

Free your mind and your ass will followThe kingdom of heaven is within

This is a bit of "realized eschatology." The disciples will experience ("see") in all Jesus' work the union with God that is his and his alone. Thus the Son of Man is the "gate of heaven," the place of the presence of God's grace on earth, the tent of God among human beings.22

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.