Heaven Quotes

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  My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Travel, Home

  Twitter post from Apr 04, 2015

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• Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Moving, Tired, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.201, The Floating Press

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• The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?

  Dwight L. Moody

  Life, Names, Written

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• But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Helping

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.260

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• I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which at length was established as clear as daylight by numerous other observations.

  Galileo Galilei

  Stars, Moving, Science

  "The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Document". Book by Kate Aughterson (p. 383), June 1, 2002.

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• It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Soul, Golden, Delight

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.72, TAN Books

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• All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Money, Heart

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.27

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• Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Freedom, Men, Hands

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• I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.

  Randy Alcorn

  Inspirational, Life, Sight

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.17, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Bears, Earth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.425

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• Heaven is a place where God will personally wipe away our tears.

  R. C. Sproul

  Tears, Wipe, Gods Will

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• The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, Sorrow, Earth

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.117, Barbour Publishing

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• Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
  And all of heaven we have below.
  Music can noble hints impart,
  Engender fury, kindle love;
  40 With unsuspected eloquence can move,
  And manage all the man with secret art.
  When Orpheus strikes the trembling lyre
  The streams stand still, the stones admire;
  The listening savages advance,
  The world and lamb around him trip
  The bears in aukward measures leap,
  And tigers mingle in the dance
  The moving woods attended as he played
  And Rhodope was left without a shade.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Art, Moving

  Joseph Addison, “A Song For St. CeCILIa's Day, At Oxford”

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• Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Flower, Simplicity

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Letters of James Russell Lowell”

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• Heaven's great artillery.

  Richard Crashaw

  Life, Great Art, Artillery

  Richard Crashaw, George Gilfillan, Francis Quarles (1857). “Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems”, p.170

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• If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

  John Calvin

  Country, Believe, May

  John Calvin (2013). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.57, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Yoga, Spirituality

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• How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured... No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer...

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Suicide, Weed, Marijuana

  "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth". The American Magazine, Volume 24, p. 18, July 1937.

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• My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
  Toward heaven still,
  And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
  Beside it, and there may be two or three
  Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
  But I am done with apple-picking now.
  Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
  The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

  Robert Frost

  Fall, Sleep, Winter

  Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.94, Coyote Canyon Press

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• There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for a soldier who returns after fleeing, and who valiantly pursues the enemy, than for one who never turned back, but who never acted valiantly either. A farmer has greater love for land which bears fruitfully, after he has cleared it of thorns, than for land which never had thorns but which never yielded a fruitful harvest.

  Pope Gregory I

  Land, Joy, Leader

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• God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Forever

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• According to the bible, Heaven is completely perfect and Hell is completely evil. In Heaven, in order to keep everything completely perfect, everyone in it would have to follow a long, specific set of rules for it to be perfect. Heaven is prison. In Hell, everyone is already evil there, so no rules need to be set to make it completely evil. Hell is freedom.

  William Carroll

  Fear, Order, Long

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  Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sympathy, Regret, Fear

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.124, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more.

  Emily Dickinson

  Doors, Waiting, Soul

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.300, First Avenue Editions

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• I love this place; I love mountains and big skies and forests. And the weather is still supremely beautiful even though the lower peaks are powdered with fresh snow. But Heavens! What sun. It never has an ending. I am basking at this minute - half past four - too hot without a hat, & the sky is that transparent blue only to be seen in autumn - the forest trees steeped in light.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Beautiful, Autumn, Past

  Katherine Mansfield (1996). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume IV: 1920-1921”, p.313, Clarendon Press

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