It is heaven on earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History....There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or idealogy that does not think that we live in alienation....Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freeedom that is only beauty, that is only real life, plenitude, light

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

God is the same God in heaven as on earth, but I shall not be the same man.

No, it is not the jaspar walls and the pearly gates that are going to make heaven attractive. It is the being with God.

Heaven would hardly be heaven if we could define it.

Why should my heart be fixed where my home is not? Heaven is my home; God in Christ is all my happiness: and where my treasure is, there my heart should be.

If heaven be too high for you to think on, and to provide for, it will be too high for you ever to possess.

Things learned on earth, we shall practice in heaven.

To believe in heaven is not to run away from life; it is to run toward it.

When you speak of heaven let your face light up...When you speak of hell -- well, then your everyday face will do.

Most of what we know about heaven from the Bible is the listing of things we do not like on earth - no sorrow, no sighing, no pain, no sin. The one theme that runs throughout the Bible is that in heaven we will be with God; and the horror of hell is that it will be a place without God.

God's in His heaven - all's right with the world!

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there.

O what is He providing for me? What entertainment with Him shall I shortly find? Not such as He found with man, when He came to seek us. It is not a manger, a crown of thorns, a cross, that He is preparing for me: when I have had my part of these in following Him. I shall have my place in the glorious Jerusalem.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel up hill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Men full of the Spirit can look right into heaven.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

He will never go to heaven who desire to go thither alone.

In heaven, to be even the least is a great thing, where all will be great; for all shall be called the children of God.

No man can resolve himself into heaven.

Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

Those who are not saints on earth will never be saints in heaven.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.