138 Quotes About Heaven

God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.

The way you store up treasure in Heaven is by investing in getting people there.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

We don't seek to escape this life by dreaming of heaven. But we do find we can endure this life because of the certainty of heaven. Heaven is eternal. Earth is temporal. Those who fix all their affections of the fleeting things of this world are the real escapists, because they are vainly attempting to avoid facing eternity - by hiding in the fleeting shadows of things that are only transient.

I have all that I need here and heaven hereafter! How much richer could anybody want to be?

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

We'll say good night here and good morning up there.

Scripture repeatedly makes clear that heaven is a realm of unsurpassed joy, unfading glory, undiminished bliss, unlimited delights, and unending pleasures. Nothing about it can possibly be boring or humdrum. It will be a perfect existence. We will have unbroken fellowship with all heaven's inhabitants. Life there will be devoid of any sorrows, cares, tear, fears, or pain.

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.

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

The soul on earth is an immortal guest, compelled to starve at an unreal feast; a pilgrim panting for the rest to come; an exile, anxious for his native home.

Those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.

Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions.

Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.

One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.

How divinely full of glory and pleasure shall that hour be when all the millions of mankind that have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb of God shall meet together and stand around Him, with every tongue and every heart full of joy and praise! How astonishing will be the glory and the joy of that day when all the saints shall join together in one common song of gratitude and love, and of everlasting thankfulness to this Redeemer! With that unknown delight, and inexpressible satisfaction, shall all that are saved from the ruins of sin and hell address the Lamb that was slain, and rejoice in His presence!

Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is great, but mainly great when viewed in its relation to the world to come.

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be forever with Him.

Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal- a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body.

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.

I would rather go into the kingdom of heaven through the poor house than go down to hell in a golden chariot.

I wouldn't trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.

Our earthly possessions will indeed perish in the final wreck of all things; but let the ship perish, let all we have sink in the deep, if we may come "safe to land." From these storms and billows--these dangerous seas--these tempestuous voyages--may we all be brought at last safe to heaven.

The joys of heaven are not the joys of passive contemplation, of dreamy remembrance, of perfect repose; but they are described thus: "They rest not day nor night." "His servants serve Him, and see His face."

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

Without holiness on earth we shall never be prepared to enjoy heaven. Heaven is a holy place. The Lord of heaven is a holy Being. The angels are holy creatures. Holiness is written on everything in heaven... How shall we ever be at home and happy in heaven if we die unholy?

Every saint in heaven is as a flower in the garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor that they all send forth, and with which they fill the bowers of that paradise above. Every soul there is as a note in some concert of delightful music that sweetly harmonizes with every other note, and all together blend in the most rapturous strains in praising God and the Lamb forever.

The nearer anyone is to heaven, the more earnestly he desires to be there, because Christ is there.

The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.

Jesus did not die on the cross just so we could live comfortable, well adjusted lives. His purpose is far deeper: He wants to make us like himself before he takes us to heaven. This is our greatest privilege, our immediate responsibility, and our ultimate destiny.

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... [Spoken in Matthew 7:21-23.]

Soon the battle will be over. It will not be long now before the day will come when Satan will no longer trouble us. There will be no more domination, temptation, accusation, or confrontation. Our warfare will be over and our commander, Jesus Christ, will call us away from the battlefield to receive the victor's crown.

The entrance fee into the kingdom of heaven is nothing: the annual subscription is everything.

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him anymore.

We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (His last words)

Heaven itself has ordained the right.

And let me tell you, the more labor you have put forth for the Kingdom of heaven, the more degrees of glory you shall have. As there are degrees of torment in hell, so of glory in heaven (Matthew 23:14). As one star differeth from another in glory, so shall one saint (1 Corinthians 15:41). Though every vessel of mercy shall be full, yet one may hold more than another.

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition--a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in the resurrection shall have a little golden tail.