Quotes on Heaven & Eternity
The hope of glory — the Father's house, the life to come, and living in view of eternity.
In my Father's house are many mansions: … I go to prepare a place for you.
25 quotations from 11 writers, each traced to the exact paragraph it comes from.
Andrew Murray 5
The Holy Spirit is the life of the heavenly Vine, and what you must get from Christ is nothing less than a strong inflow of the Holy Spirit.
Let us seek to understand that the life of the branch is a life of much fruit, because it is a life rooted in Christ, the living, heavenly Vine.
The truth is this, pride may die in you or nothing of heaven can live in you.
God is a spirit: He is the Everlasting and Unchangeable One; what He is, He is always and in truth.
To be a branch means not only bearing fruit on earth, but power in prayer to bring down blessing from Heaven.
Augustine of Hippo 1
Nothing then of Thy Word doth give place or replace, because It is truly immortal and eternal.
Charles H. Spurgeon 4
We are not going to talk about law, and duty, and punishment, but about love, and goodness, and forgiveness, and mercy, and eternal life.
Trust Christ, and by that trust you grasp salvation and eternal life.
Our court-dress in heaven, and our garment of sanctification for daily wear, are the condescending gifts of Christ's love.
There never yet was a heavenly thought, a hallowed deed, or a consecrated act, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ, which was not worked in us by the Holy Spirit.
E. M. Bounds 2
Prayer holds earth to heaven and brings heaven in close contact with earth.
Nothing short of being red hot for God, can keep the glow of heaven in our hearts, these chilly days.
Gareth Evans 1
The eagle does not rest until it sees its offspring rise to soar above all the other birds in the vast expanse of the heavens.
George Müller 2
Where should the heart of the disciple of the Lord Jesus be, but in heaven?
Remember that the world passeth away, but that the things of God endure forever.
Hudson Taylor 1
When the Lord Jesus comes again, those, surely, who have stored most in heaven, and have least to leave behind on earth, will render their account with the greatest joy.
John Wesley 3
The way to hell has nothing singular in it; but the way to heaven is singularity all over.
No suffering, but that of Christ, has any power to expiate sin; and no fire, but that of love, can purify the soul, either in time or in eternity.
Many indeed think of being happy with God in heaven; but the being happy in God on earth never entered into their thoughts.
Jonathan Edwards 3
The kingdom of heaven is not to be taken but by violence.
None that will come to Christ, let his condition be what it will, need to fear but that Christ will provide a place suitable for him in heaven.
How great is their glory and honor that are admitted to be of the household of God!
Richard Allen 1
In short, the love of this world is a heavy weight upon the soul, which chains her down, and prevents her flight towards heaven.
Thomas à Kempis 2
No man deserves the consolation of heaven unless he persistently arouses himself to holy contrition.
No man is fit to enjoy heaven unless he has resigned himself to suffer hardship for Christ.