Quotes About Heaven

I love ye, Nerissa O' Devir," he murmured softly. "Ye're the best thing that's ever come into me life. 'Til the day I die, I'll be thankin' the good Lord and every saint in heaven for sendin' ye to me.

As my grandmother always said, there was only one perfect person to ever walk this earth, and God took him back.

Smiles escape from clouds above and angels ring a chorus of your love.

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

In their religion they are so uneven,That each man goes his own byway to heaven.

A fifty-eight-year-old woman in Puerto Rico regretted: Having an abortion. Having to say I'm sorry when I meet him/her in Heaven.

Hence the dazzling mountain scene that takes our breath away should not provoke us to try to seize and freeze the moment, but to give thanks and look ahead to the beauty of the new heaven and the new earth, of which this world's finest beauty is but a miniscule glimpse. We delight in the world's beauty as we lament its transience.

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

I dread my trial at the pearly gates - knowing my luck, I'll be hot on the heels of a blameless nun who will be ushered straight to a luscious cloud with prime sea views.

We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class. And I took them all very literally, that God sees everything, and so I felt I was always being watched. Or that dead people were in Heaven right over our village.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

One of my ambitions is to move to Tuscany. I like the idea of getting a vineyard. I love being under the sun and being casual and comfortable. That's my idea of heaven.

The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did.

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.

But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be in heaven together, so we might as well learn to get along here because we will have to get along there. God won't have it any other way.

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

I can't exactly say why I've chosen to write about the things that I am writing about. There are doubtless better stories from my life that I am missing, events and escapades I am not wise enough to know were important. If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars that they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead. p 179

He'd follow her to hell to claim it was due to him. Unfortunately, he suspected she was headed for heaven, which was barred to him.

Why did you tell me all this?" "So if I die, you'd know not to come looking for me when you get to heaven.

Heaven belongs to the impetuous who won't wait.

Heaven will be full of the songs of worshipers who had once been broken people in a broken world, picked up and used for God's glory.