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Quotes About Heaven

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.
~ Edith Stein
The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good.
~ George Whitefield
In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
~ William Gurnall
Until my work on this earth is done, I am immortal. But when my work for Christ is done ... I go to be with Jesus
~ John Wesley
In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
~ Johannes Tauler
It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.
~ Thomas Szasz
There is no way to work your way to God. There is no way to climb up to heaven. There is only one way, and that is through Christ.
~ Kevin DeYoung
If you could work your way to heaven, you would said look what I did, I got myself here by my good works. The only way you are going to make it is to come to that Cross.
~ Billy Graham
Did think you were here to kill time listening to Christian music until you go to heaven? We've got work to do.
~ Mark Driscoll
Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
~ Ben Jonson
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
~ Josh Billings
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.
~ Isaac Barrow
Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.
~ Carolina Herrera
I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
~ Edmund White
Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?
~ Cyrano de Bergerac
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
~ Stephen Hawking
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
~ William Wilberforce
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Seeing as how nothing is outside the vast, wide-meshed net of heaven, who is there to say just how it is cast?" "I find good people good, and I find bad people good, if I am good enough.
~ Timothy Ferriss
But the service Jesus rendered for us in his life, death, and resurrection is not just for forgiveness of sins or a future in heaven; it is also for the daily power to change in the present. We are not just promised life after death, but life before death! You can remember this as you face the realities of life in a broken world.
~ Timothy S. Lane
This side of heaven, relationships and ministry are always shaped in the forge of struggle.
~ Timothy S. Lane
mess. This side of heaven, relationships and ministry are always shaped in the forge of struggle. None of us get to relate to perfect people or avoid the effects of the fall on the work we attempt to do. Yet, amid the mess, we find the highest joys of relationship and ministry.
~ Timothy S. Lane