Heaven Quotations | Page 5

To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God.

I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.

Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?

I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services.

I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.

There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.

A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.

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

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.

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

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God.

Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out?

Maybe a president who didn't believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.

I don't think saying "I was wrong here, I was wrong there" absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.

Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.

The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth

Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to heaven. No problem. We'd like to see them explain things to Saint Peter at the Gate, when he asks them what they did with the world that God entrusted to them. That might get a bit sticky.

It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources between nations to be unalterably ordained by heaven and incapable of drastic rearrangement by the less than gentle manipulation of man.

The outside world doesn't have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.

You know what days these are? The days of Elijah. We are in the days of Elijah! Fire is falling down from heaven!

I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now.

Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

Start loving now, and you start Heaven now.

Don't try to get all your rewards on earth. There are more rewards in Heaven.

We're in this world to bring heaven down to earth.

Heaven is His choice for you. But He won't force you to go there if you don't want to.

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

Therefore keep waiting for the day when the heaven shall bring an evident smoke, / That shall overtake men; this is a painful punishment.

Christ, by highest heaven adored. Christ, the everlasting Lord, Late in time behold Him come, Offspring of a virgin's womb. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the incarnate Deity! Pleased as Man with man to dwell; Jesus, our Immanuel!

Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.

If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.

On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.

Maybe life on earth could be heaven, doesn't just the thought of it make it worth a try?

If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.

They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't.

My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.

What is the will of God? On earth as it is in heaven. If it doesn’t exist there, it’s not supposed to exist here. If it does exist there, it’s supposed to exist here.

Heaven invades earth when there is agreement here to what exists there. Honestly, that's how it happens.

Just because you are going to Heaven doesn't mean you have Heaven established in you. Success is Heaven on earth.

I literally finished 7th Heaven, went up to Toronto, and started SAW. So, it was definitely a little mind change.

I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.

An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appeared in that narrow compass.

World Christians are heaven's expatriates, camping where the Kingdom is best served.

Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me...Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

Disciples of Jesus Christ understand that compared to eternity, our existence in this mortal sphere is only “a small moment” in space and time. They know that a person’s true value has little to do with what the world holds in high esteem. They know you could pile up the accumulated currency of the entire world and it could not buy a loaf of bread in the economy of heaven.

Since the world began, God has raised up prophets who speak the will of heaven to the people of their times. It is our responsibility to listen and then apply the messages the Lord provides for us.

There are messages in each general conference given as a gift and a blessing from heaven specifically for our personal life situations.

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.

So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire -- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you.

I am damned and damned and damned. How in heaven's name could I have done any of it?

In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to exist there when the last of their radiant host shall have fallen from heaven.

It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge.

We grow to heaven. We don't go to heaven.

You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped.

And as He has given, "In all thy getting, my Son, get understanding." This is putting proper emphasis in the proper places, and do not become sidetracked by things that would pertain to material or spiritual alone, or things of the body or things of the heavenly force. For you grow to heaven, you don't go to heaven. It is within thine own conscience that ye grow there. For there first must come peace and harmony within thy purpose, thy ideal, thy hopes, thy desires. Thy wishes even must be in harmony with thy ideal if you would make the experience in the earth of value to thee.

All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self.

Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.

The bottom line is in heaven!

You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's mysteries, the only righter of earth's wrongs, and the only cure for worldliness, is heaven. We need an infusion of heaven into our faith and hope that will create a homesickness for that blessed place. God's home is heaven. Eternal life and all good were born there and flourish there. All life, happiness, beauty, and glory are native to the home of God. All this belongs to and awaits the heirs of God in heaven. What a glorious inheritance!

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.

Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.

Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love.

The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!

Musicians are the architects of heaven.

A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.

My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!

Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.

Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman