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Quotes About Heaven

The Prophet was taken by the order of God to heaven, which is a prototype of all spiritual realization in Islam. But, he had a guide; Gabriel, the angel, was his guide. He took him to heaven.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Contrary to popular belief, the moment we land in Heaven we don't immediately know everything! If we did, we'd be God Himself - all-knowing.
~ David Berg
Thank God for Heaven! - That's where everything will get straightened out and made right!
~ David Berg
A lot of people think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing except being holy - and they don't find it very appealing! Thank God that is not what Heaven is like!
~ David Berg
God put many animals here [on Earth] for pets, playthings and companions for us and our children, and we're still going to enjoy them [in Heaven].
~ David Berg
Even Heaven would be Hell to some people because they'd be too close to God!
~ David Berg
The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world
~ David Platt
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
~ Desmond Tutu
We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.
~ Desmond Tutu
You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.
~ Don DeLillo
If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.
~ Elton John
There ain't been no angels in heaven around since God invented girls.
~ Elton John
I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.
~ Evelyn Underhill
The God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government. And he has sent other choice spirits to preserve it.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?
~ Frank McCourt
Heaven is a state of awareness. Hell is a state of awareness.
~ Frederick Lenz
Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, - The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth.
~ Friedrich Schiller
When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven.
~ George Herbert
And thus was kept the first Christmas, the Christmas in the year one, with carols by the choir of heaven, and God's own Son, the Saviour of the world, coming as a Christmas gift for all mankind.
~ George Hodges (theologian)
I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.
~ George MacDonald
It's not the governor's role to decide who goes to heaven. That's God's role.
~ George W. Bush
Soon we shall be up there with Christ. God did not mean us to be happy without Him; but God would first have us to be witnesses for Him down here, to hold out as much light as we can.
~ George Wigram
For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?
~ Gerald Stern
The angel is actually the message himself. His appearance is the message that heaven is intensely concerned with us, and that God cares for us like a father for his children.
~ H. C. Moolenburgh