Quotes About Heaven

I . . . praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all of whose works are truth, and His ways justice. – Daniel 4:37

For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. – Philippians 1:23

When we crunch the numbers in heaven, we'll see they had a way of compounding with interest until the exponential results can only be calculated by the angelic bookkeepers.

Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). – Revelation 21:25

The twelve gates were twelve pearls . . . and the street of the city was pure gold. – Revelation 21:21

The LORD has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all. – Psalm 103:19

Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. – Acts 1:9

Now it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven. And they worshiped Him. – Luke 24:51–52

And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. – Genesis 5:24

Who are these arrayed in white robes . . . ? These are the ones who . . . washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. – Revelation 7:13–14

Not now, but in the coming years, It may be in the better land, We'll read the meaning of our tears, And there, some time, we'll understand. We'll catch the broken thread again, And finish what we here began; Heav'n will the mysteries explain, And then, ah then, we'll understand. God knows the way, He holds the key, He guides us with unerring hand; Some time with tearless eyes we'll see; Yes, there, up there, we'll understand.

Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. – Luke 11:2

Suddenly a chariot of fire appeared . . . and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. – 2 Kings 2:11

The head that once was crowned with thorns Is crowned with glory now; A royal diadem adorns The mighty victor's brow. The highest place that Heav'n affords Belongs to Him by right; The King of kings and Lord of lords, And Heaven's eternal Light. The joy of all who dwell above, The joy of all below, To whom He manifests His love, And grants His Name to know.

Christ then will be seen as fully African and black, fully one of them and on their side. It is this Christ that will lead the Africans to the achievement of the new earth and the new heaven. For

quoted Wordsworth: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven." From Paris, the French Socialist Minister of Munitions, Albert Thomas, telegraphed

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

I hope you're at peace. I hope you... I hope you're in heaven, and you fell in love with someone who treats you better than I ever did, and that they're fucking your brains out and then fucking your brains back in after that on a daily basis. I'll always miss you, Lucille. I'm sorry I named a fucking baseball bat after you.

You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,Nor a friend to know me;All I ask, the heaven aboveAnd the road below me.

If you want to be perfect, go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor—you will have riches in Heaven.

Plot these days is anti-intellectual and verboten, the mark of the Philistine, the huckster with a pen. There mustn't be too much story and that should be fog-bound and shrouded in heavy symbolism, including the phallic, like a sort of covoluted charade. Symbolism now carries the day, it's the one true ladder of literary heaven.

A heaven opens when people are kind to one another.