Heaven Quotes

The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.

~ John Burroughs

You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.

~ Terry Pratchett

We are all blessed ones. Heaven is no longer in the clouds. It is right here, all around us, everywhere; we must only open our eyes to see it.

~ Kim Chestney

The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however good that pleasure may be in itself, is always taken away from us. The things for which men strive hardly ever turn out to be as satisfying as they expected, and in the rare cases in which they do, sooner or later they are snatched away.... For the Christians, all those partial, broken and fleeting perfections which he glimpses in the world around him, which wither in his grasp and he snatches away from him even while the wither, are found again, perfect, complete and lasting in the absolute beauty of God.

~ Randy Alcorn

When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.

~ Rob Bell

We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can't, sort of like having a superpower that's not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It's a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect.

~ Rob Lowe

Heaven's net is wide, but its mesh is fine

~ Lao Tzu

And if they do, I hope heaven is a road trip. I hope it’syou and me and Renny and Ted with nothing but time on our hands. I hope it’s, I don’t know, crossing an immeasurable distance with your closest friends.

~ Madeleine Roux

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

~ Randy Alcorn

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

I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth.

~ Virchand Gandhi

If you're a child of God, you do not just go around once on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without end. You'll inhabit the New Earth! You'll live with the God you cherish and the people you love as an undying person on an undying Earth.

~ Randy Alcorn

Life is whatever you make it, a heaven or hell on earth.

~ Steven Redhead

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of witness, every resistance of temptation, every motion of repentance, every gesture of concern, every routine engagement, every motion of worship, every struggle towards obedience, every mumbled prayer, everything, literally, which flows out of our faith-relationship with the Ever-Living One, will find its place in the ever-living heavenly order which will dawn at his coming.

~ Randy Alcorn

Life is exactly what you make it, it can be a heaven or hell, it's all up to you.

~ Steven Redhead

Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be partakers of our honey talk.(Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54)

~ Christopher Marlowe

Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard, however, since this endearing quality frequently masquerades as wit.

~ Mike Corbett

Lord Foulgrin: You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole. (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)

~ Randy Alcorn

No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny.

~ Mike Corbett

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

~ C. S. Lewis

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

~ Herb Caen

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

~ Billy Graham

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

~ Robert Browning

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

~ Robert Quillen

My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.

~ Bubba Watson

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

~ Davy Crockett

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

~ William Shakespeare

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

~ James A. Baldwin

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

~ La Monte Young

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

~ Jules Renard

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

~ John Lubbock

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

~ H. G. Wells

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

~ Rudyard Kipling

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

~ Tryon Edwards