Heaven Quotes - Page 26

• The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.

  John Owen

  Self, Views, Imagination

  John Owen (1815). “Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ: In Two Parts. I. In His Person, Office, and Grace; with the Differences Between Faith and Sight: Applied Unto the Use of Them that Believe. II. The Application of the Same Meditations Unto Unconverted Sinners, and Saints Under Spiritual Decays”, p.3

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• God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as it is he has set his love upon particular sinners, and this means that, by his own free voluntary choice, he will not know perfect and unmixed happiness again till he has brought every one of them to heaven. He has in effect resolved that henceforth for all eternity his happiness shall be conditional upon ours.

  J. I. Packer

  Mean, Perfect, Choices

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• I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.

  John Bunyan

  Book, Heart, Safe

  John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.19, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Blessed, Delight

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.97

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• He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art like the man that would ride full gallop whose horse will hardly trot. Now the desire of his mind is not to be judged of by the slow pace of the dull jade he rides on, but by the hitching and kicking and spurring as he sits on his back. Thy flesh is like this dull jade, it will not gallop after Christ, it will be backward though thy soul and heaven lie at stake.

  John Bunyan

  Art, Horse, Lying

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• Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Helping, Christ

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1241, Delphi Classics

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• The kingdom of heaven is for the heirs - and if children, then heirs; if born again, then heirs. Wherefore it is said expressly, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. By this one word, down goes all carnal privilege of being born of flesh and blood, and of the will of man. Canst thou produce the birthright?

  John Bunyan

  Children, Men, Blood

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1323, Delphi Classics

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• Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.

  Thomas Brooks

  Grace, Looks, Madness

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• Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Wind, Storm

  Thomas Brooks (1859). “Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks”, p.3

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• I would not send my child to a vacation Bible school in 99.9% of the Baptist churches in America. Have some teacher that doesn't even understand anything about the gospel of Jesus Christ, ask those little children, 'How many of you want to go to Heaven?' and damn most of them! Harden their heart to the gospel with some silly profession of faith because it was a silly proclamation of the gospel! It brought no genuine repentance, it brought no faith; it's no different than the Roman church that baptizes every infant that is born.

  Paul Washer

  Teacher, Jesus, Children

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• A Christian is not somebody who stays away from all the wicked things he loves and clings to all the righteous things he hates so that he can go to heaven. The fear of the Christian is not going to hell. The fear of the Christian is being separated from Christ.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Hate, Wicked

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• Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

  William Gurnall

  Coats, Fool, Ashamed

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.14

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• The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with him; yea, will not let him go without a blessing... They are only a few noble-spirited souls, who dare take heaven by force, that are fit for this calling.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Prayer, Humble

  William Gurnall (1862). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...”, p.3

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• Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Strong, Land

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.60

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• A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven into us, Col. 2: 2, 3.

  John Flavel

  Saving, Christ, Wells

  John Flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2015). “THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OPENED UP”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• Grace alone makes the elect gracious; grace alone keeps them gracious; and the same grace alone will render them everlastingly glorious in the heaven of heavens.

  Augustus Toplady

  Grace, Gracious, Glorious

  Girolamo Zanchi, Augustus Toplady, Justus Lipsius (1811). “The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Stated and Asserted:”, p.181

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• I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.

  Augustus Toplady

  Prayer, Soul, Praise

  Girolamo Zanchi, Augustus Toplady, Justus Lipsius (1811). “The doctrine of absolute predestination stated and asserted”, p.21

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• These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who have become as men and men who have become as women. Writers of books with long titles. Only those knights who have failed to touch the Grail. Industrious women. You, and I, and a boy named Oleg, and a girl with blue hair.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Grief, Book

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• Music is actually where I see heaven.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Music Is

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• In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous, maintaining at the same time a scientific orientation.

  M. Scott Peck

  Believe, Thinking, Ordinary Days

  M. Scott Peck (2001). “Wisdom from the Road Less Traveled”, p.148, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.

  Dogen

  Beautiful, Mean, Goal

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Healing, Hands, Perspective

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• Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry,
  Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam
  And clear dances done in the sight of heaven.

  Richard Wilbur

  Sight, Hands, Rising

  Richard Wilbur (2012). “Poems of Richard Wilbur”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We're told the old-school imperialists were racists, that they thought of the wogs as inferior. But, if so, they at least considered them capable of improvement. The multiculturalists are just as racist. The only difference is that they think the wogs can never reform: Good heavens, you can't expect a Muslim in Norway not to go about raping the womenfolk! Much better just to get used to it.

  Mark Steyn

  School, Thinking, Differences

  "Battered Westerner Syndrome inflicted by myopic Muslim defenders" by Mark Steyn, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 23, 2002.

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• We never, ever judge someone on who's going to heaven, hell. That's the Almighty's job. We just love 'em, give 'em the good news about Jesus - whether they're homosexuals, drunks, terrorists. We let God sort 'em out later, you see what I'm saying?

  Phil Robertson

  Letting Go, Jesus, Jobs

  "What the Duck?". Interview with Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.

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