Heaven Quotes

Walk in the path of light towards the heavens.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The fires of hell were seventy times hotter than the fires of the iron.

~ Ruth Ahmed

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

~ Blaise Pascal

Augustine recast how people should view history, that history was not the story of the rise and fall of empires because those are human things. Those are the city of man. Rather, true history should be the history of salvation, of man moving toward God. It's a focus that takes the light off of this world and shines it much more brightly on the next world.

~ Thomas F. Madden

Thus, Christ making His human divine and taking it into heaven is the central event of all time. It is the miracle of all miracles. The resurrection bursts like a sun on the timeline of history, which means this innermost event shines light on all points in history leading up to it and after it.

~ Steve Sanchez

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.

~ C.s. Lewis

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

~ Novalis

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth, to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is “remains.” To be a complete man means to have the passions obedient to the will and the will offered to God: to have been a man – to be an ex-man or “damned ghost” – would presumably mean to consist of a will utterly centered in its self and passions utterly uncontrolled by the will.

~ C.s. Lewis

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

~ Aberjhani

Heaven lies in the heart of humankind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let's pray for grace to live heavenly on earth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If human beings cannot inhabit the earth, can we live in heaven?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Real religion does not mean Gods - it does not mean Angels and Demons - it does not mean miracles of healing. Real religion is all about you and your fellow humans. There is nothing else.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Don’t fret. We all experience it. We must. For despite our humanity love is the only way we can be like gods. It is in love that we glimpse heaven during our lifetime and have proof that there’s something worth looking forward to in the end.

~ Felix Alexander

Probably no invention came more easily to man than Heaven.

~ Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg

Life is a lie. We should fear it more than death. We live fearful of dying, terrified of the unknown … when, really, every truth is in our last breath.

~ Piper Payne

My hours are filled with fantasy and indifference. In day and night dreams, I think of my heaven with you. All the time in between, I carelessly spend in hell without you.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social weapon in the hands of the religious institutions. This split in public values produced or was accompanied by, as it was bound to be, an equally artificial and ugly division in people's lives, so that a man, while pursuing Heaven with the sublime appetite he thought of as his soul, could turn his heart against his neighbors and his hands against the world...Though Heaven is certainly more important than the earth if all they say about it is true, it is still morally incidental to it and dependent on it, and I can only imagine it and desire it in terms of what I know of the earth. (pg. 23, A Native Hill)

~ Wendell Berry

Heaven is all around us. All we need is perception, to extol the melodies of Nature's orchestra.

~ Anurag Shourie

Heavens is here 'neath the mountain walls,In the song of the wind and the waterfalls,In the watchful stars that blanket the nightAnd the music of birds before the dawn light.Heaven is here in our mountain keep.In the silence and dim of the forest deep,From the chestnut tall as the mightiest mast,To the laurel flowers in the shadow it casts.Heaven is here on theses mountains high, In ancient stone castles that challenge the sky,In the thunder and flash that ring from their fightAnd the meadows made gold by the day's final light.

~ Michael Oechsle

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.

~ Gerald Durrell

Blessed are the peacemakers, theirs is the kingdom of heaven

~ Leo Tolstoy

Obedience to The Holy Spirit brings you heaven now.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Many are concerned with going to heaven or hell, But fail to realize that you can be living in heaven or hell right here on Earth.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Your love is my diamond that I want to wear near my heart. Your hug is my heaven where I want to belong always.

~ Debasish Mridha

What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?

~ Laura Story

Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.

~ Paulo Coelho

I knew then why I had to suffer. The older we get, the more reasons God gives us to seek His comfort. In the end, He sends us just enough pain and suffering so that we will want to leave. If everything were perfect, we would never choose to go. He wants us to seek an end to our suffering because He wants us to want to come Home.

~ Kate Mcgahan

The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy pleasure and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun and some ecstasy ... Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but he will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

~ C.s. Lewis

Heaven left a hole in your heart. But it’s up to you to choose if that hole will be filled with pain, anger, and the eternal darkness of loss . . . Or if you will choose to fill it with light and love and have that hole shine out of you like a spotlight into your life, keeping their memory alive . . .{It’s up to you.}

~ Tessa Shaffer

Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

She hoped that her baby was happy and would be waiting for her when she herself left Botswana and went to heaven. Would Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni get round to naming a wedding date before then? She hoped so, although he certainly seemed to be taking his time. Perhaps they could get married in heaven, if he left it too late. That would certainly be cheaper.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am... Pause to mop up. Better now.Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

~ Dodie Smith

I love you like the devil loves his pitchfork. I love you like the angel loves his wings. I love you from here to heaven, through hell and back again.

~ Robert Thier

Gratitude is a spiritual heaven.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs.

~ Mark Galli

Colour outside the lines, live outside the box. Don’t let anyone tell you what to do, or not. Don’t be afraid, listen to your heart. Heaven is a state of being – of one-ness, and Hell is a state of being – lost. We simply need to live as we best define ourselves, find our own ways of being who we are in our world. There is no requirement - only freedom of choice. We should not be judged if we are doing what we think best according to our perceptions at any given time. Guilt should be discarded, moved beyond - what matters is who we choose to be in the next moment, given what we might have learned. We continually create ourselves anew. Forgiving someone is a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto far too long. Take back the energy you have wasted on these things and reclaim your power to be your next best self. Honour the past but refresh, expand, renew, fulfill. Heaven is within us, always reachable.

~ Jay Woodman

The sun's rays have vision and give us vision. However, it is the birds' eyes and the two invisible angels by your side that record everything. Nothing goes unnoticed throughout the universe. Wherever there is a vibration, there are eyes and ears. Some energies don't need ears or vision to see or hear, they can feel what is in your heart and tap into all your sins and fears.

~ Suzy Kassem

Heaven lies in the heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita