Quotes about Heavenly
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.
- St. Augustine
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
- AB Simpson
A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.
- Richard Baxter
Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected.
- Tony Evans
Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.
- Joseph Wirthlin
What heavenly power lends an ear To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?
- Euripides
In the Bible, the term "apocalyptic" (apokalypsis) encompasses a worldview in which the truly significant battle is the ongoing one between the Lord God of Sabaoth (Hebrew, meaning armies) and the Enemy, who deploys the principalities and Powers (Eph. 2: 2). This contest on the heavenly level is enacted on the earthly level by struggles large and small in the realm of human affairs —battles waged not with worldly weapons but with the spiritual armor of God (Eph. 6: 11-17).
- Fleming Rutledge
Typically, the louder a voice gets, the bigger the knot in my gut grows. So I have to turn my heart and mind toward our Heavenly Father and ask, "Is this pit in my stomach about today or is it about what already happened in the past or about what I'm afraid might happen in the future?
- Lisa Harper
The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.
- John of the Cross
No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.
- Jerry Bridges
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
- Anonymous
One star differeth from another star in glory.
- Anonymous