Quotes About Heaven

Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness.

There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive. Do you intend to fight back at fate, Valentine? That's what I came here to ask you. -Maximilien Morrel

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

He pointed out to him the bearings of the coast, explained to him the variations of the compass, and taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God writes in azure with letters of diamonds.

My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.

He told himself that it was the enmity of man, and not the vengeance of heaven, that had thus plunged him into the deepest misery.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.

But you are quite of opinion, are you not, that Heaven will avenge me, d'Artagnan? And I know some persons on earth who will lend a helping hand, said the captain.

Every act of kindness is another step up Heaven's stairway.

The Kingdom of Heaven runs on righteousness, but the Kingdom of Earth runs on oil. ERNEST BEVIN, CHURCHILL'S MINISTER OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE London

There is a heaven of disembodied voices

Since the object of our worship is the glorious and majestic God of heaven, when worship becomes empty, the problem lies somewhere with the subject (us), not the object (God).

Forgotten gods fill the layers of heaven. Quiescent, subordinate, long ago superseded. Waiting. And every so often, reminded of their own existence. ~~~

New Age says you get into heaven by 'being a good person'; Christianity says it's not your works that save you --- it's God's grace through your faith in the life, death, and resurrection of our Savior Jesus (who was the only sinless and truly good person to walk the earth). God's love doesn't give us a license to do whatever we please.

We will print the words of Christ who is with us always, even to the end of the world. "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who persecute and calumniate you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, who makes His sun to rise on the good and the evil, and sends rain on the just and unjust.

Calvin said, "Jesus came down from Heaven but i never knew that he was a dove. i think about all those doves we killed with shotguns and Jesus could be in the form of a dove, flying around here on Earth. if we was to shoot him while he was a dove he would probably never forgive our sins.

In Heaven (if there is one), we are held accountable for every joy we failed to taste.

As long as desire is banished from the kingdom of Heaven, there will always be a long line at the Gates of Hell.

We've come up with a lot of strange ideas about what we will do in heaven when we first see Jesus. Some people think they will shake his hand or give him a hug. Some people have questions they want to ask. I think we will do what John did — fall down in awe and wonder and love at Jesus' feet.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions," said Boyd. "So is the road to heaven," she countered. "Which road we might be on is in the eye of the beholder.

even the most compassionate of the species could be corrupted by absolute power. Even angels in heaven could be corrupted, as Satan himself proved only too well.

You know what they say about sinners having more fun. You go to heaven for the air conditioning. You go to hell for the company.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

And so it easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a teenager to enter the kingdom of heaven listening to the Dave Matthews Band.