Quotes about Heaven

Our enemy slanders three things: God's person, God's people, and God's place—namely, Heaven.29

Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.

Christ is and will forever remain both God (from Heaven) and man (of earth). I

Baptist pastor Octavius Winslow (1808-1878) said, The child of God is, from necessity, a joyful man. His sins are forgiven, his soul is justified, his person is adopted, his trials are blessings, his conflicts are victories, his death is immortality, his future is a heaven of inconceivable, unthought-of, untold, and endless blessedness—with such a God, such a Saviour, and such a hope, is he not, ought he not, to be a joyful man?

I have met no people who fully disbelieved in Hell and also had a living and life-giving belief in Heaven.

the video Homesick for Heaven: www.epm.org/homesick

C. S. Lewis depicts another source of our misconceptions about Heaven: naturalism, the belief that the world can be understood in scientific terms, without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations.

But earth is not heaven." "And those who expect it to be," Dani said, "can never know Joy.

This place [Heaven] is not an ethereal realm of disembodied spirits, because human beings are by nature physical. (We are also spiritual.) What we are suited for - what we've been specifically designed for - is a place like the one God made for us: Earth.

If the Bible is right about what happens to us after death, it means that more than 250 000 people every day go either to Heaven or to Hell.

God isn't just preparing a place for us. He is preparing us for that place.

Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth and you will get neither."34 We need a generation of heavenly minded people who see human beings and the earth itself not simply as they are, but as God intends them to be.