Quotes about Heaven
Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
— Ignatius of Antioch
Heaven is a place where God will personally wipe away our tears.
— RC Sproul
Life has its share of joys and laughter—but we also know life's road is often very rough. Temptations assail us; people disappoint us; illness and age weaken us; tragedies and sorrows ambush us; evil and injustice overpower us. Life is hard—but God is good, and heaven is real!
— Billy Graham
And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”
— Genesis 28:17
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
— Ambrose of Milan
She quoted the Reverend James Forbes as saying, "Nobody gets into heaven without a letter of reference from the poor.
— Anne Lamott
Marriage is earth's closest image for Heaven because it is all or nothing, forever - a leap of faith.
— Peter Kreeft
God will not permit all men to enter heaven; those who are his own he will receive with all readiness.
— Martin Luther
You can't take it with you— but you can send it on ahead.
— Randy Alcorn
I am counting totally and completely on the Lord Jesus Christ, and not on Billy Graham. I am not going to heaven because I've read the Bible, nor because I've preached to a lot of people. I'm going to heaven because of what Christ did.
— Billy Graham
Even when theologians and preachers have seen this danger and have insisted that what was achieved on the cross was the direct result of the Father's love, when the goal is Platonized ("going to heaven") and the human role is moralized ("good and bad behavior"), the structure of the implicit story will still run in the wrong direction.
— NT Wright
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher