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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.
~ Bible ~
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
~ Pearl S. Buck ~
It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them.
~ Dr. Caird ~
I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
~ Jean-Baptiste Corot ~
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
~ Nadine Gordimer ~
Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal.
~ Adolph Harnack ~
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
~ James Joyce ~
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 ~
In heaven after "ages of ages" of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, "It doth not yet appear what we shall be."
~ Alexander Maclaren ~
As for evildoers, for them awaits a painful chastisement; but for those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, they shall be admitted to gardens underneath which rivers flow, therein dwelling forever, by the leave of their Lord, their greeting therein: "Peace!"
~ Qur'an ~
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
~ Jonathan Swift ~
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
~ Kelvin Throop III ~
Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
~ Mark Twain ~
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
~ Evelyn Waugh ~
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
~ H.G. Wells ~
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
~ B. Wilberforce ~
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