The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here on earth.
Heaven
Billy Graham
Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
Man’s heart is the very throne and citadel of God, and when He enters there to abide, heaven begins.
Aristeides
If any righteous man among the Christians passes from this world, they rejoice and offer thanks to God, and they escort his body with songs and thanksgiving as if he were setting out from one place to another nearby.
Aristeides (125 A. D.)- A non-Christian Greek, in a letter.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father’s palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.
Corrie Ten Boom
When I enter that beautiful city, And the saints all around me appear, I hope that someone will tell me: it was you who invited me here.
Carolyn Arends
I guess I shouldn’t think it odd [that] until we see the face of God the yearning deep within us tells us there’s more to come. So when we taste of the divine it leaves us hungry every time for one more taste of what awaits when heaven’s gates are reached.
A. B. Simpson
Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.
Martin Luther
If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
C. S. Lewis
There is no need to be worried by facetious people who try to make the Christian hope of ‘Heaven’ ridiculous by saying they do not want ‘to spend eternity playing harps’. The answer to such people is that if they cannot understand books written for grown-ups, they should not talk about them. All the scriptural imagery (harps, crowns, gold, etc.) is, of course a merely symbolical attempt to express the inexpressible. Musical instruments are mentioned because for many people (not all) music is the thing known in the present life which most strongly suggests ecstasy and infinity. Crowns are mentioned to suggest the fact that those who are united with God in eternity share His splendour and power and joy. Gold is mentioned to suggest the timelessness of Heaven (gold does not rust) and the preciousness of it. People who take these symbols literally might as well think that when Christ told us to be like doves, He meant that we were to lay eggs.