Heaven Quotes - Page 155

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'

The family who prays will never be parted. Their circle in Heaven unbroken shall stand. God will say enter my good faithful servant. The family who prays never shall part.

There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.

If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell.

The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell.

Some people, when they use the word 'salvation', understand nothing more by it than deliverance from hell and admittance into heaven. Now, that is not salvation: those two things are the effects of salvation.

Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

Be purity of life the test, leave to the heart, to heaven the rest.

No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for if you will receive it when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.

All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven.

Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death, to be forgotten.

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.