God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.
– Max Lucado
Heaven | Life
The way you store up treasure in Heaven is by investing in getting people there.
– Rick Warren
Heaven | Evangelism
My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.
– Billy Graham
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Heaven | Home
Scripture repeatedly makes clear that heaven is a realm of unsurpassed joy, unfading glory, undiminished bliss, unlimited delights, and unending pleasures. Nothing about it can possibly be boring or humdrum. It will be a perfect existence. We will have unbroken fellowship with all heaven’s inhabitants. Life there will be devoid of any sorrows, cares, tear, fears, or pain.
– John MacArthur
Heaven
Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
– C.S. Lewis
Heaven | Joy
I have all that I need here and heaven hereafter! How much richer could anybody want to be?
– Lester Roloff
Heaven
We don’t seek to escape this life by dreaming of heaven. But we do find we can endure this life because of the certainty of heaven. Heaven is eternal. Earth is temporal. Those who fix all their affections of the fleeting things of this world are the real escapists, because they are vainly attempting to avoid facing eternity – by hiding in the fleeting shadows of things that are only transient.
– John MacArthur
Life | Heaven
I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.
– Martin Luther
Heaven
We’ll say good night here and good morning up there.
– John R. Rice
Death | Heaven
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
– Jonathan Edwards
Heaven
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.
– Billy Graham
Heaven | Animals
The soul on earth is an immortal guest, compelled to starve at an unreal feast; a pilgrim panting for the rest to come; an exile, anxious for his native home.
– Hannah More
Heaven | Rest
Those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
– D. A. Carson
Joy | Heaven
Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions.
– C.S. Lewis
Heaven
Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.
– John R. Rice
Heaven | Hell
There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
– Charles Spurgeon
Heaven
One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. …works have a place–but as a demonstration of having received God’s forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.
– Ravi Zacharias
Scripture | Heaven | Forgiveness
I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
– R.A. Torrey
Heaven | Hell
For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be forever with Him.
– William Barclay
Heaven
How divinely full of glory and pleasure shall that hour be when all the millions of mankind that have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb of God shall meet together and stand around Him, with every tongue and every heart full of joy and praise! How astonishing will be the glory and the joy of that day when all the saints shall join together in one common song of gratitude and love, and of everlasting thankfulness to this Redeemer! With that unknown delight, and inexpressible satisfaction, shall all that are saved from the ruins of sin and hell address the Lamb that was slain, and rejoice in His presence!
– Isaac Watts
Heaven | Joy | Thankfulness
Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is great, but mainly great when viewed in its relation to the world to come.
– Albert Barnes
Life | Heaven
Without holiness on earth we shall never be prepared to enjoy heaven. Heaven is a holy place. The Lord of heaven is a holy Being. The angels are holy creatures. Holiness is written on everything in heaven… How shall we ever be at home and happy in heaven if we die unholy?
– J. C. Ryle
Holiness | Heaven
Our earthly possessions will indeed perish in the final wreck of all things; but let the ship perish, let all we have sink in the deep, if we may come “safe to land.” From these storms and billows–these dangerous seas–these tempestuous voyages–may we all be brought at last safe to heaven.
– Albert Barnes
Heaven
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
– Martin Luther
Heaven | Laughter
The joys of heaven are not the joys of passive contemplation, of dreamy remembrance, of perfect repose; but they are described thus: “They rest not day nor night.” “His servants serve Him, and see His face.”
– Alexander MacLaren
Joy | Heaven
You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
– Samuel Rutherford
HeavenLaziness
O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.
– Samuel Rutherford
Inspiration | Heaven
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… [Spoken in Matthew 7:21-23.]
– John R. Rice
Heaven | Hell
Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal- a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body.
– Dwight L. Moody
Heaven | Death
A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
– C.S. Lewis
Heaven
He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.
– Assorted Authors
Evangelism | Heaven
What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!
– George Whitefield
Heaven
I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.
– Adrian Rogers
Heaven
Soon the battle will be over. It will not be long now before the day will come when Satan will no longer trouble us. There will be no more domination, temptation, accusation, or confrontation. Our warfare will be over and our commander, Jesus Christ, will call us away from the battlefield to receive the victor’s crown.
– Thomas Watson
Satan | Heaven
The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.
– Alexander MacLaren
Heaven
Heaven itself has ordained the right.
– George Washington
Heaven
The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.
– Samuel Rutherford
Heaven
Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition–a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.
– Alexander MacLaren
Heaven
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in the resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
– Martin Luther
Heaven | Comfort | Resurrection
Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.
– William Gurnall
Heaven | Death
It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
– Charles Kingsley
Heaven
Our earthly possessions will indeed perish in the final wreck of all things; but let the ship perish, let all we have sink in the deep, if we may come “safe to land.” From these storms and billows–these dangerous seas–these tempestuous voyages–may we all be brought at last safe to heaven.
– Albert Barnes
Heaven
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
– Samuel Rutherford
Heaven
Jesus did not die on the cross just so we could live comfortable, well adjusted lives. His purpose is far deeper: He wants to make us like himself before he takes us to heaven. This is our greatest privilege, our immediate responsibility, and our ultimate destiny.
– Rick Warren
Heaven | The Cross | Responsibility
Everything science has taught me – and continues to teach me – strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.
– Assorted Authors
Heaven
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
– William Wilberforce
Heaven
Every saint in heaven is as a flower in the garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor that they all send forth, and with which they fill the bowers of that paradise above. Every soul there is as a note in some concert of delightful music that sweetly harmonizes with every other note, and all together blend in the most rapturous strains in praising God and the Lamb forever.
– Jonathan Edwards
Heaven | Music
Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.
– C.S. Lewis
Heaven
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a “wandering to find home,” why should we not look forward to the arrival?
– C.S. Lewis
Heaven
Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Heaven | God
A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify: A never-dying soul to save, and fit it for the sky.
– Charles Wesley
Heaven
Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.
– Charles Spurgeon
Heaven
Love is indeed heaven upon earth; since heaven above would not be heaven without it; for where there is not love, there is fear; but, “Perfect love casteth out fear.” And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most love.
– William Penn
Heaven | Love
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
– Matthew Henry
Heaven | Death
But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him anymore.
– William Barclay
Heaven
There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
– Charles Spurgeon
Heaven
Where is the capacity for heaven to come from if it be not developed on earth? Where, indeed, is even the smallest appreciation of God and heaven to come from when so little of spirituality has ever been known or manifested here?
– Henry Drummond
Heaven
We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?
– John Owen
Heaven | Worldliness
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
– C.S. Lewis
Heaven | Perseverance
The nearer anyone is to heaven, the more earnestly he desires to be there, because Christ is there.
– John Owen
Heaven
If the way to heaven is so narrow, and so few find it, what will become of those who never seek it?
– William Tiptaft
Heaven
Strange that I am not ever looking up, if I expect to see the door of heaven open, and the One I love coming out. Oh! What a scene, when He comes forth to change these vile bodies, fashioning them like to His own glorious body!
– G.V. Wigram
Heaven
The social gospelers are so obsessed with this-worldliness that other-worldliness (is) laughed at, and next-worldliness is rated low. It is as though it were sinful to talk about heaven on earth. Thank God, there is still a band of us pilgrims who have gotten out, who are going on, and who are happy to be getting home.
– Vance Havner
Heaven | Worldliness
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
– Charles Spurgeon
Heaven
So, I tell you, it is foolish to expect the infinite God to place the dynamite of Heaven in the careless hands of a Christian who does not know the travail of soul that Christ had, and has not entered into the burden for sinners and the sense of shame over sin.
– John R. Rice
Heaven
How could we enjoy heaven if during our lifetime we had used most of our time, treasure, and talents for ourselves and our select group?
– Daniel Fuller
Heaven | Selfishness
The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.
– Alexander MacLaren
Heaven
If we do not have some knowledge by faith of the glory of Christ here and now, it means that we have no real desire for His presence in heaven.
– John Owen
Heaven
We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death.
– A. B. Simpson
Heaven | Trials | Overcoming
And now the kingdom of heaven arises before us in its altogether new dignity, so that he in it who is least is greater than the greatest who are without and at its threshold.
– Assorted Authors
Heaven
When the promised inheritance of heaven (which was figured by the pleasant land of promise), is not counted worthy of all the pains and difficulties which can be sustained and met with in the way of going toward it; the promised inheritance is but little esteemed of.
– David Dickson
Heaven
Looking for God–or Heaven–by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare’s plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.
– C.S. Lewis
God | Heaven
Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.
– Joseph Hall
Heaven | The Heart
If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see their second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.
– John Newton
Heaven
What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element, and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits, and character.
– J. C. Ryle
Heaven
The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It’s enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrows currently assail us aren’t worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Life | Heaven
The entrance fee into the kingdom of heaven is nothing: the annual subscription is everything.
– Henry Drummond
Heaven | Surrender
Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went thither because they were so good and so holy. Yet not one of them, not any man that is now in heaven (Jesus Christ alone accepted), did ever come thither any other way but by forgiveness of sins. And that will also bring us higher, though we come short of many of them in holiness and grace.
– John Owen
Heaven | Salvation
I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (His last words)
– John Newton
Heaven
Oh, thrice fools are we, who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle, know not that there is a kingdom before them; then, let our Lord’s sweet hand square us, and hammer us, and strike off the knots of pride, self-love, and world-worship, and infidelity, that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father’s house.
– Samuel Rutherford
Heaven | Foolishness | Self-love
Why should I ever resist any delay or disappointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation – when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?
– Kay Arthur
Perseverance | Heaven | Affliction
If this world with its fading pleasures is so much admired, what must heaven be, which God praises?
– William Tiptaft
Heaven
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
– John Foxe
Persecution | Heaven
Shall we find that we have experienced all Christ’s love here, when we meet Him in heaven?
– G.V. Wigram
Heaven
The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.
– Alexander MacLaren
Heaven
How far away is Heaven? It is not so far as some imagine. It wasn’t very far from Daniel. It was not so far off that Elijah’s prayer and those of others could not be heard there. Men full of the Spirit can look right into heaven.
– Dwight L. Moody
Heaven
Answering a student’s question, ‘Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?’ thus, It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.
– Charles Spurgeon
Evangelism | Heaven | The Gospel
What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
– Thomas Carlyle
Heaven | Nature
God keeps no half-way house. It’s either heaven or hell for you and me.
– Billy Sunday
Heaven | Hell
Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.
– Elisabeth Elliot
Heaven
The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.
– Alexander MacLaren
Heaven
If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, “I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it.” But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.
– Charles Spurgeon
Heaven | Grace
He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Heaven | Resurrection
The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.
– J. C. Ryle
Heaven
And let me tell you, the more labor you have put forth for the Kingdom of heaven, the more degrees of glory you shall have. As there are degrees of torment in hell, so of glory in heaven (Matthew 23:14). As one star differeth from another in glory, so shall one saint (1 Corinthians 15:41). Though every vessel of mercy shall be full, yet one may hold more than another.
– Thomas Watson
Heaven
The joys of heaven are not the joys of passive contemplation, of dreamy remembrance, of perfect repose; but they are described thus: “They rest not day nor night.” “His servants serve Him, and see His face.”
– Alexander MacLaren
JoyHeaven
You will not be in heaven two seconds before you cry out, why did I place so much importance on things that were so temporary? What was I thinking? Why did I waste so much time, energy and concern on what wasn’t going to last?
– Rick Warren
Heaven
Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.
– Assorted Authors
Gratitude | Heaven
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
– Charles Spurgeon
Heaven
God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.
– Thomas Aquinas
Heaven