Heaven Quotes - Page 11

O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.

The mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs.

God is as really present in the consecrated Host as He is in the glory of Heaven

The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.

Heaven is not for good people, it's for forgiven people.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

If it's that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in . He doesn't even have a bribe for the gatekeeper.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love.

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even church workers - yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers - will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord... (see: Matt 7:21-23.]

Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic.

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

While a little faith may bring your souls to heaven, a lot of faith--clinging to God despite your circumstances--will bring heaven to your soul

It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.

Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are- you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.

Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.

That’s how we often react when grace comes at us. It’s awkward. God offers us something that’s too good to be true—unearned, unmerited, total forgiveness—and we stand there, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for the embrace to stop so we can get back to the business of earning our way into heaven. We need to embrace grace. We need to learn how to hug back.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.