Heaven

"Yet stay, heaven gates are not so highly arch'd As princes' palaces; they that enter there, Must go upon their knees."

"The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained."

"Thomas Daggett: Some people lose their faith because Heaven shows them too little. But how many people lose their faith because Heaven showed them too much?"

"If Christians have the monopoly of salvation, over whom will they rule? And how will this promise be fulfilled, that to faithful servants is given the authority over five or ten cities (Luke 19:17-19)? It is no fun to be king over empty towns. So they will be populated by those who have not been faithful servants. We Christians will be in the heavenly Jerusalem, but there will also be nations walking in its light (Revelation 21:24). The leaves of the tree of life will serve for the healing of the nations (Revelation 22:2), which means that there will be in the life beyond people who need a cure for their souls."

"Abu Umama narrated: "The Messenger of God said, 'Everyone that God admits into paradise will be married to 72 wives; two of them are houris and seventy of his inheritance of the [female] dwellers of hell. All of them will have libidinous sex organs and he will have an ever-erect penis.' ""

"Certainly heaven is something we all need, however, we should not imagine it anthropomorphically. [...] I believe that we certainly cannot rule out the possibility of an existence outside of space and time, mass, energies and charges. In heaven there can be anything but that."

"Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven."

"Nunc ille vivit in sinu Abraham."

"Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise; Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say What this tumultuous body now denies; And feel, who have laid our groping hands away; And see, no longer blinded by our eyes."

"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."

"To appreciate heaven well 'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell."

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

"Heaven means to be one with God."

"Where tempests never beat nor billows roar."

"And so upon this wise I prayed,— Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours But large enough for me."

"Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest."

"Since heaven's eternal year is thine."

"'Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in hell And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell. On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed."

"Where billows never break, nor tempests roar."

"While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past."

"They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay away from the coronation."

"Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair— Sorrow and death may not enter there; Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom, For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, It is there, it is there, my child!"

"All this, and Heaven too!"

"Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man; Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed."

"Nil mortalibus arduum est; Cœlum ipsum petimus stultitia."

"There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest."

"In my father's house are many mansions."

"Sperre dich, so viel du willst! Des Himmels Wege sind des Himmels Wege."

"Booth led boldly with his big bass drum (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?) The Saints smiled gravely, and they said "He's come." (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?)"

"The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us."

"When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar."

"We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps."

"Cedit item retro, de terra quod fuit ante, In terras; et, quod missum est ex ætheris oreis, Id rursum cæli relatum templa receptant."

"Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road."

"Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven."

"There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere."

"A Persian's Heaven is eas'ly made, 'Tis but black eyes and lemonade."

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

"There's nae sorrow there, John, There's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal."

"A sea before The Throne is spread;—its pure still glass Pictures all earth-scenes as they pass. We, on its shore, Share, in the bosom of our rest, God's knowledge, and are blest."

"Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire. And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire."

"A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tente of wickedness."

"Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those whom most he likes."

"The blessed Damozel lean'd out From the gold bar of Heaven: Her eyes knew more of rest and shade Of waters still'd at even; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven."

"It was the rampart of God's house That she was standing on; By God built over the sheer depth, The which is Space begun; So high, that looking downward thence, She scarce could see the sun."

"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via."

"Straight is the way to Acheron, Whether the spirit's race is run From Athens or from Meröe: Weep not, far from home to die; The wind doth blow in every sky That wafts us to that doleful sea."

"Who seeks for Heaven alone to save his soul May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While he who walks in love may wander far, Yet God will bring him where the blessed are."

"So all we know of what they do above Is that they happy are, and that they love."

"For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love."