Quotes about Heaven
Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.
— Ravi Zacharias
What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?
— Francis de Sales
By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
— William McKinley
This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
— John Milton
Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.
— St. Isidore of Seville
Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.
— Charles Spurgeon
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.
— Peter Kreeft
Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.
— St. John Chrysostom
Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.
— William Temple
Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.
— John Newton
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
— John Milton
I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.
— Cicero