Quotes about Heaven
Heaven was many things, but without a doubt, it was the greatest family reunion of all.
- Don Piper
Unworthy as I am, he allowed me to go to heaven, and I know the next time I go there, I'll stay.
- Don Piper
God still answers prayers, God still performs miracles. Heaven is real.
- Don Piper
Some may not believe my account; they may think it was some kind of wish fulfillment during a point of severe trauma. I don't have to defend my experience. I know what happened to me. For those of us whose faith is in the reality of heaven, no amount of evidence is necessary.
- Don Piper
To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord to those who love him and know him.
- Don Piper
None of the hymns that filled the air were about Jesus' sacrifice or death. I heard no sad songs and instinctively knew that there are no sad songs in heaven.
- Don Piper
My feeling has been that once we're actually in God's presence, we will never return to earth again, because it will be empty and meaningless by comparison.
- Don Piper
As I ponder this, I don't believe my greeting committee said, "Oh no, he doesn't get to stay." They're still there at the gate. They're waiting. For them, time is not passing. Everything is in the eternal now—even if I can't put that into words. Even if ten more years pass, or thirty, in heaven it will be only an instant before I'm back there again.
- Don Piper
The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.
- John Quincy Adams
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
- GK Chesterton
The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.
- Richard Sibbes
How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?
- Donald Miller