Heaven Quotes - Page 22

• Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.

  Edmund Sears

  Night, Listening Ear, Ears

  Edmund Hamilton Sears (1885). “That Glorious Song of Old”

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• The church has been preoccupied with the question, 'What happens to your soul after you die?' AS IF THE REASON FOR JESUS COMING CAN BE SUMMED UP IN, 'JESUS IS TRYING TO HELP GET MORE SOULS INTO HEAVEN, AS OPPOSED TO HELL, AFTER THEY DIE.' I JUST THINK A FAIR READING OF THE GOSPELS BLOWS THAT OUT OF THE WATER. I don't think that the entire message and life of Jesus can be boiled down to that bottom line

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Reading, Blow

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• The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

  Laozi

  Victory, Doe, Way

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• There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.

  Bear Bryant

  Wife, Special, Alabama Football

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• I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.

  Jim Elliot

  Jesus, Passion, Men

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• What will it cost you, oh Mary, to hear our prayer? What will it cost you to save us? Has not Jesus placed in your hands all the treasures of His grace and mercy? You sit crowned Queen at the right hand of your son: your dominion reaches as far as the heavens and to you are subject the earth and all creatures dwelling thereon. Your dominion reaches even down into the abyss of hell, and you alone, oh Mary, save us from the hands of Satan.

  Pope Pius X

  Jesus, Queens, Prayer

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• The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Rose, Fundamentals

  "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", 121, May 8, 1838.

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• The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

  Thomas More

  Distance, Way, Length

  Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Henry Neville (1999). “Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines”, p.12, OUP Oxford

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• Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. Even, Father, would I lose the love of fondling. How often I have released a grasp only to retain what I prized by 'harmless' longing, the fondling touch. Rather, open my hand to received the nail of Calvary, as Christ's was opened- that I, releasing all, might be released, unleashed from all that binds me now. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp.

  Jim Elliot

  Father, Hands, Nails

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• O, beautiful rainbow; - all woven of light!
  There's not in thy tissue, one shadow of night;
  Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear,
  And, bending above thee, the angels draw near,
  And sing, - "The rainbow! the rainbow!
  "The smile of God is here."

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Beautiful, Angel, Night

  "A complete dictionary of poetical quotations".

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• The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense. How horrible to contemplate a church full of persons who have been pardoned but who still love sin and hate the ways of righteousness. And how much more horrible to think of heaven as filled with sinners who had not repented nor changed their way of living.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

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• Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.

  Andrew Jackson

  Wife, My Wife, Ifs

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• Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Angel, Liquor Stores, Band

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Wind, Storm

  Thomas Brooks (1859). “Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks”, p.3

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• Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

  John Milton

  Towers, Architecture, Hell

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 748

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• I'm tired of advertising! I'm looking for new solutions that make people laugh and amuse. Italian creativity is too narrow, it still hasn't overcome the dichotomy limits between heaven and hell.

  Renzo Rosso

  Tired, Creativity, Italian

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• The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.

  John Owen

  Self, Views, Imagination

  John Owen (1815). “Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ: In Two Parts. I. In His Person, Office, and Grace; with the Differences Between Faith and Sight: Applied Unto the Use of Them that Believe. II. The Application of the Same Meditations Unto Unconverted Sinners, and Saints Under Spiritual Decays”, p.3

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• I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

  Aldous Huxley

  Experience, Visionaries, Sometimes

  1956 Heaven and Hell.

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• Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.

  Sivananda

  Light, Meditation, Darkness

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• We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Believe, Saint, Needs

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• No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!

  George MacDonald

  Heart, Hair, Devil

  George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “The Heart of George MacDonald: A One-Volume Collection of His Most Important Fiction, Essays, Sermons, Drama, and Biographical Information”, p.399, Regent College Publishing

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• The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.

  John Owen

  Home, Son, Men

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.40

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• Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Helping, Christ

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1241, Delphi Classics

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• The kingdom of heaven is for the heirs - and if children, then heirs; if born again, then heirs. Wherefore it is said expressly, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. By this one word, down goes all carnal privilege of being born of flesh and blood, and of the will of man. Canst thou produce the birthright?

  John Bunyan

  Children, Men, Blood

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1323, Delphi Classics

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• I would not send my child to a vacation Bible school in 99.9% of the Baptist churches in America. Have some teacher that doesn't even understand anything about the gospel of Jesus Christ, ask those little children, 'How many of you want to go to Heaven?' and damn most of them! Harden their heart to the gospel with some silly profession of faith because it was a silly proclamation of the gospel! It brought no genuine repentance, it brought no faith; it's no different than the Roman church that baptizes every infant that is born.

  Paul Washer

  Teacher, Jesus, Children

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