Quotes about Heaven

The primary source of water for the Flood was the springs of the great deep bursting forth (Genesis 7:1127). This water in turn likely provided some of the water in the "windows of heaven" in an indirect fashion. There is no need for an ocean of vapor above the atmosphere to provide for extreme amounts of water for the rain that fell during the Flood.

Oh, brethren, be great believers! Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to you.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...

The heaven in which the Christian by anticipation dwells is not the cosmical heaven, it is a thoroughly redemptive heaven, a heaven become what it is through the progressive upbuilding and enrichment pertaining to the age-long work of God in the sphere of redemption.

Heaven, so to speak, has received time and history into itself, no less than time has received unchangeableness and eternity into itself.

The love of heaven must drive out the inordinate love of what is earthly.

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God.