HEAVEN QUOTES III

quotations about Heaven

When all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Doctor Faustus

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What, after all, is Heaven but a transition, from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate, to the fullness of all wisdom.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

The Student: A Series of Papers

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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

"Notebook L", Aphorisms

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Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.

THOMAS GUTHRIE

Christ and the Inheritance of the Saints


There was no pain when I awoke,
No pain at all. Rest, like a goad,
Spurred my eyes open -- and light broke
Upon them like a million swords:
And she was there. There are no words.

Heaven is for a moment's span.
And ever.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

"The Quality of Courage", Young Adventure

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No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

American Note-Books, 1836

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Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

ELIZABETH BISHOP

North & South

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Were there a country on earth uniting all that is beautiful in nature, all that is great in virtue, genius, and the liberal arts, and numbering among its citizens the most illustrious patriots, poets, philosophers, philanthropists of our age, how eagerly should we cross the ocean to visit it! And how immeasurably greater is the attraction of heaven! There live the elder brethren of the creation, the sons of the morning, who sang for joy at the creation of our race; there the great and good of all ages and climes; the friends, benefactors, deliverers, ornaments of their race; the patriarch, prophet, apostle, and martyr; the true heroes of public, and still more of private, life; the father, mother, husband, wife, child, who, unrecorded by man, have walked before God in the beauty of love and self-sacrificing virtue. There are all who have built up in our hearts the power of goodness and truth, the writers from whose pages we have received the inspiration of pure and lofty sentiments, the friends whose countenances have shed light through our dwellings, and peace and strength through our hearts. There they are gathered together, safe from every storm, and triumphant over every evil; and they say to us, Come and join us in our everlasting blessedness; come and bear part in our song of praise; share our adoration, friendship, progress, and works of love.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts

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Heaven is not reached at a single bound;
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
And we mount to its summit round by round.

JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND

"Gradatim"

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Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.

RICHARD BACH

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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Heaven and Hell are man's hopes and his fears extended beyond the grave.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo.

JOHN R. RICE

Bible Facts about Heaven

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All the way to Heaven is heaven because He said, "I am the Way."

ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA

attributed, My God and My All: The Life of St. Francis of Assisi


Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

PHILLIPS BROOKS

"The Gift and Its Return", Sermons


Heaven for climate, and hell for society.

MARK TWAIN

speech to the Acorn Society, 1901

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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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When I see your heavens, the works of your fingers,
The moon and the stars that you have prepared,
What is mortal man that you keep him in mind,
And a son of man that you take care of him?

DAVID

Psalms 8:3-4


O the novelty, the beauty, the grandeur of the heaven of heavens, the house not made with hands, the city that hath foundations infinitely surpassing the temple of Solomon, and the city of David! Beautiful was the earthly paradise, and beautiful the earthly Canaan; yea, beautiful is this habitable earth, where many of the enemies of God reside. What then must be the heavenly paradise, the heavenly Canaan, which God hath prepared for them that love him!

WILLIAM MCEWEN

"On the Happiness of Heaven", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity


Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly.

C. S. LEWIS

The Great Divorce

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To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.

BUDDHIST PROVERB