Quotes About Heaven

Praise for Kingdom

as we clashed together and commenced our collaboration on another chapter of the famous, familiar and amusing saga of human relations—choosing heat instead of grace, possession over possibility—trading the kingdom of heaven one more time for two arms full of beautiful, confusing earth.

Hung be the Heavens in Scarlet

We humans are destined to live with our feet on the earth and our heads in the heavens, and we can never be at peace because we are pulled both ways.

The Albion was a spacious pub, built in the days when a public house with any pretensions to gentility had to have fourteen foot ceilings, brass taps and a polished wooden bar you skate down. ... Bert, in his reflective moments, considered that if heaven didn't have a well-appointed pub where a man could sit down over a beer for a yarn with the other angels, then he didn't want to go there.

To Hell with all racialists,' she said aloud. 'And to Hell with eugenics, degenerate heredity, miscegenation and frauds who pile up skulls like a conqueror as well. May they choke on their bones.' A passing gentleman boggled at her and crossed to the other side of La Trobe Street. 'There is no place for them in the Kingdom of Heaven,' she added, rolling the phrase over her tongue and filing it for future reference.

I looked over Jordan, and what did I see? Coming for to carry me home A band of Angels coming after me Coming for to carry me home.

Epigraph But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, As would make the angels weep. —William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

the Kingdom, not the menace of hell, as the motive for repentance.

Decidme, pues, ¿cómo debería apreciar los encantos que un cielo para mí en un infierno transformaron?

It is not earth that judges heaven, but heaven that judges earth; so for me at least it was not earth that criticised elfland, but elfland that criticised the earth.

Ymir's body is divided so that everything, even his eyebrows, were used in the creation of the world; the four dwarfs who hold up the sky; the wolves that chase the sun and moon; the giant's eyes that are tossed up into heaven and turned into stars: these and a host of other particulars become narrative elements within the cycle.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n. – John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667), Book 1, lines 254–5

The truth is that we are the vandals; we are the ones who have defaced the holy heart of God. You and I are sinners saved by grace. We deserved hell but have been given something we did not deserve: the love and friendship of God and an eternal home with him in heaven.

Pastor-theologians should not have to choose between a "social" and a "spiritual" gospel, for there is only one gospel (Gal. 1:6–7), "an eternal gospel" that concerns the heavens and the earth (Rev. 14:6). The

O conhecimento bíblico é necessário para que os cristãos compreendam sua identidade em Cristo (i.e., o que significa ser santo) e para que sejam melhores cidadãos do céu aqui na Terra (Ef 2.19; Fp 3.20). p. 152

In the mind of the kid in skinny jeans leading the worship band, there isn't a large enough gap between holiness and sinfulness, truth and error, demons and angels, or heaven and hell.

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die to get there.

A generous person is close to Allah, close to Paradise, close to people, and far from Hell. However, a miserly person is far from Allah, far from Paradise, far from people, but close to Hell. Allah loves more an ignorant man who is generous than a worshipper who is miserly. (Tirmidhi.) We

We all have a job to do—a commissioning fueled by the forces of heaven, a spiritual assignment that will be opposed at every step by the forces of hell.

angel took my flower away, but I will not repine, since Jesus at His bosom wears the flower that once was mine.

A wife is a gift, Athol. Heaven's best gift, my pa always said. If you can't appreciate the gift, maybe you shouldn't ask for it.

remember. "In the sweet by and by…" Chief

There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.