Heaven Quotes - Page 18

• The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to fall out of the heavens like roasted ortolans. He knows how to hunt...He is never inspired because he is unceasingly inspired, because the powers of poetry are always at his disposition, subjected to his will, submissive to his own activity.

  Raymond Queneau

  Fall, Inspiration, Waiting

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• The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon, and planets, glorify Him in your ineffable language! Praise Him, celestial harmonies, and all ye who can comprehend them! And thou, my soul, praise thy Creator! It is by Him and in Him that all exist.

  Johannes Kepler

  Moon, Soul, Sun

  "Methodist Review", vol. 55, (pp. 187 - 88), 1873.

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• The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

  "On the revolutions".

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• O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  People, Earth, Faces

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• Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.

  Laozi

  Ambition, Self, People

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• Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to magnify nothing but what is great indeed, and to talk of God to them, and of His works and ways. before they can either speak or go.

  Thomas Traherne

  Christian, Children, Silly

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Faith, Christian

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1869). “Gleanings Among the Sheaves”, p.130

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• It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Two, Personality, Hell

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• All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Self, Hatred

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

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• In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, War, Men

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• It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.

  Johann David Wyss

  Ideas, Giving, Contentment

  Johann David Wyss, Isabelle de Montolieu (1871). “The Swiss Family Robinson: Or, Adventures in a Desert Island. Six Coloured Engravings on Steel”, p.246

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• Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Prayer, Needs

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.17, CCEL

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• Kids today learn a lot about getting to the moon, but very little about getting to heaven.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Children, Kids

  David Jeremiah, Carole C. Carlson (1995). “Invasion of Other Gods”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, Pride, Want

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• Jesus Messiah, name above all names, blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel, the rescue for sinners, the ransom from Heaven, Jesus Messiah, Lord of all.

  Chris Tomlin

  Christian, Jesus, Blessed

  Song: Jesus Messiah, Album: Hello Love, 2008

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• A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity; they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Thinking, People

  Francis Chan, Mark Beuving (2011). “Living Crazy Love: An Interactive Workbook for Individual or Small-Group Study”, p.91, David C Cook

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• Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even church workers - yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers - will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord... (see: Matt 7:21-23.]

  John R. Rice

  Christian, People, Church

  John R. Rice (1939). “Religious But Lost”, p.5, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.

  Adam Clarke

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Fear Of Death, Masters

  William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.261

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• Every Christian who keeps looking up stretches his heart's capacity for Heaven.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Christian, Heart, Capacity

  Joni Eareckson-Tada (2010). “Heaven: Your Real Home”, p.286, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wedding, Memories, Wind

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• God made the world with a heart full of love,
  Then He looked down from Heaven above,
  And saw that we all need a helping hand,
  Someone to share with, who'll understand.
  He made special people to see us through
  The glad times and the sad times, too;
  A person on whom we can always depend,
  Someone we can call a friend.
  God made friends so we'll carry a part
  Of His perfect love in all our hearts.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Hands, Special People

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• If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

  Josh Billings

  Hypocrite, Thinking, World

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• ...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

  James Lee Burke

  Earth, Way, Causes

  James Lee Burke (2002). “Jolie Blon's Bounce: A Novel”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.

  Paulo Coelho

  Air, House, Tree

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