Heaven Quotes

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  Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sympathy, Regret, Fear

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.124, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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  My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Travel, Home

  Twitter post from Apr 04, 2015

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• We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Inspiration, Godly

  Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.173, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

  Joe Louis

  Funny, Boxing, Religion

  1965 In Sports Illustrated,'Scorecard',19 Jul.

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• You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Waiting, Doe

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• Sing like no one is listening.
  Love like you’ve never been hurt.
  Dance like nobody’s watching,
  and live like it’s heaven on earth.

  Susanna Clarke

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

  Plautus

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  People, Preparation, Far Away

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (1947). “Systematic Theology”

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• There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Earth, Path

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• All of heaven we have below.

  Joseph Addison

  Music

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'

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• On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

  Jules Renard

  Nature, Pieces, Earth

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• To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Accommodations, Enjoy, Pleasant

  Jonathan Edwards (2013). “A Journey Toward Heaven: A Daily Devotional from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards”, Reformation Heritage Books

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  Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Cute, God

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9262, Delphi Classics

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• Sincerity is the way to heaven.

  Mencius

  Reality, Way, Sincerity

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• In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Life, Fear

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Death, Spiritual

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

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• Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Work

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.

  John Piper

  Night, Apples, Pie

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.17, SPCK

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• God keeps a niche
  In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit
  He brake them to our faces, and denied
  That our close kisses should impair their white,--
  I know we shall behold them raised, complete,
  The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,
  New Memnons singing in the great God-light.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Kissing, Light, Dust

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.81

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• Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspiration, Humor, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.109

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• Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

  Mencius

  Reality, Men, Evil

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• We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

  Plato

  Wise, Plato, Earth

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.8095, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

  Laozi

  Creativity, Creative, Sublimity

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• Men and women will retain their sex in heaven

  Pope John Paul II

  Sex, Men, Men And Women

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• The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.

  Jeremy Collier

  Lying, Land, Water

  Jeremy Collier (1852). “An ecclesiastical history of Great Britain”, p.241

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