Quotes about Heaven
Hail, holy light! offspring of heav'n firstborn.
— John Milton
Moloch, scepter'd king, Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit that fought in heav'n; now fiercer by despair.
— John Milton
The star that bids the shepherd fold.
— John Milton
The starry copeOf heaven.
— John Milton
Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
— John Milton
What if earth be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein each to other like, more than on earth is thought?
— John Milton
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.
— John Milton
We learn to tread more warily, to trust less to our own strength, to have lower thoughts of ourselves, and higher thoughts of Him; in which two last particulars I apprehend what the Scripture means by a growth of grace does properly consist. Both are increasing in the lively Christian: —-every day shows him more of his own heart, and more of the power, sufficiency, compassion, and grace of his adorable Redeemer; but neither will be complete till we get to Heaven. I
— John Newton
Christ has taken our nature into heaven to represent us, and has left us on earth with his nature to represent him.
— John Newton
We learn to tread more warily, to trust less to our own strength, to have lower thoughts of ourselves, and higher thoughts of Him; in which two last particulars, I apprehend what the Scripture means by a growth of grace does properly consist. Both are increasing in the lively Christian—every day shows him more of his own heart, and more of the power, sufficiency, compassion, and grace of his adorable Redeemer; but neither will be complete till we get to Heaven.
— John Newton
He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)
— John Piper
heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy
— John Piper