Quotes About Heaven

As much as the heavens exceed the earth, so much larger is the field of spiritual meditation than that of all terrestrial concerns.

Yes, it is a truth that for a good man, honored, beloved, useful, with all around him that God ever gives to His children here; nay, with all that God could give him of earth, it would be " gain " to die. Heaven is a better, a happier, a more desirable world than this is or can be.

God calls you alike by Scripture, by your reason, by your conscience, by the events of His providence, by heavenly influences to consecrate all you have to His service and the good of man; Heaven appeals to you, and the world appeals to you, not to live in vain.

Are angels my attendants? Then I should walk worthy of ray companionship. Am I so soon to go and dwell with angels? Then I should be pure. Are these feet so soon to tread the courts of heaven? Is this tongue so soon to unite with heavenly beings in praising God? Are these eyes so soon to look on the throne of eternal glory, and on the ascended Redeemer? Then these feet and eyes and lips should be pure and holy; and I should be dead to the world, and live for heaven.

When we read Christ's words "my kingdom is not of this world," many of us are inclined to understand it as an argument against Christian involvement in politics, for example. Instead, Jesus was saying that his kingship does non arise out of (Greek: ek) the perverted earth but derives from heaven.

The only place that's better than Sunnybank," he mused, his hand on Lad's silken head, his eyes ceasing to rove over his moonlit acres and resting happily on his wife—"the only place that's better than Sunnybank is heaven. And that's only because in heaven, according to the Bible, 'there is no marrying or giving in marriage.

God acts by His works: in Heaven, by angels; on earth, by men. In the heaven of human conceptions, it is humanity that creates God; and men think that God has made them in His image, because they make Him in theirs.

En el momento en que Leonor invocaba la piedad del cielo para Martín, éste, como los antiguos caballeros, se lanzaba a lo más crudo de la pelea, llevando en su pecho la imagen y en sus labios el nombre de Leonor.

One day when God fell asleep And the Holy Ghost went off flying, He got into a box of miracles and stole three. With the first he made it so that no one would know he had run away. With the second he made himself a human boy forever. With the third he created a Christ eternally crucified And left him nailed to the cross that there is in Heaven Where he's used as a model for other crosses. Then he ran away to the sun And came down on the first ray he caught.

"Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners — let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

Come diceva spesso agli altri e a sé stessa, tutto il suo studio era di secondare i voleri del cielo; ma faceva spesso uno sbaglio grosso, ch'era di prender per cielo il suo cervello.

I made Mommy put a blanket in there with him...A blanket and a flashlight...So he'll be warm and not scared of the dark. Just till he gets to God's house. - thoughtful 4 year old, Abby Delaney

From the Chaldean Mysteries, extreme unction has obviously come. Among the many names of the Babylonian god was the name "Beel-samen," "Lord of Heaven," which is the name of the sun, but also of course of the sun-god.

To sell out the kingdom of heaven for power is a devil's bargain. It is the bargain that the narcissist makes.

He that loves and trusts God possesses God. He that possesses God has enough for earth. He that possesses God has enough for heaven.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

Order is heaven's first law.

Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.