Heaven

Heaven may refer to the physical heavens, the sky, the seemingly endless expanse of the universe beyond or to an afterlife plane of existence (often held to exist in another realm) in various religions and spiritual philosophies, often described as the holiest possible place, accessible by people according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith or awareness.

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I see Heaven's glories shine,
And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear. ~ Emily Brontë
All the way to heaven is heaven; and as those angels, which came from heaven hither, bring heaven with them, and are in heaven here, so that soul that goes to heaven, meets heaven here. ~ John Donne
The redeemed shall walk there. ~ Isaiah 35:9
To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose under heaven. ~ Pete Seeger
  • Everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die.
    • Peter Tosh, in the song Equal Rights
  • I cannot be content with less than heaven;
    Living, and comprehensive of all life.
    Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;
    Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time;
    Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,
    Star-throned.
  • If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?
    • Hosea Ballou, as quoted in Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou (1854) p. 261.
  • Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. "The kingdom of God is within you."
    • Henry Ward Beecher, in Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher.
  • To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.
  • Let heaven exist, though my own place may be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification.
  • No coward soul is mine,
    No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
    I see Heaven's glories shine,
    And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear.
  • Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven; because if you do not give yourself in sympathy to goodness, goodness cannot give itself in influence to you.
  • All places are distant from heaven alike.
    • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II, Section III. Memb. 4.
  • All the way to Heaven is heaven because He said,"'I am the Way."
    • St. Catherine of Siena, as quoted in My God and My All: The Life of St. Francis of Assisi (1959) by Elizabeth Goudge, p. 107.
  • Had Jesus completed his mission as the Messiah on earth, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth would have been established in his day. The Kingdom of Heaven in heaven would also have been realized at that time, once people of perfect character living in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth had passed into the spirit world as divine spirits. However, because Jesus died on the cross, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth was not realized. The earth never saw the appearance of people who had reached the level of a divine spirit. No one has ever become a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven in the spirit world, which was created as the home of divine spirits. Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven remains empty and incomplete.
  • Howling is the noise of hell, singing the voice of heaven; sadness the damp of hell, rejoicing the serenity of heaven. And he that hath not this joy here, lacks one of the best pieces of his evidence for the joys of heaven; and hath neglected or refused that earnest, by which God uses to bind his bargain, that true joy in this world shall flow into the joy of heaven, as a river flows into the sea; this joy shall not be put out in death, and a new joy kindled in me in heaven; but as my soul, as soon as it is out of my body, is in heaven, and does not stay for the possession of heaven, nor for the fruition of the sight of God, till it be ascended through air, and lire, and moon, and sun, and planets and firmament, to that place which we conceive to be heaven, but without the thousandth part of a minute's stop, as soon as it issues, is in a glorious light, which is heaven, (for all the way to heaven is heaven; and as those angels, which came from heaven hither, bring heaven with them, and are in heaven here, so that soul that goes to heaven, meets heaven here ; and as those angels do not divest heaven by coming, so these souls invest heaven, in their going.) As my soul shall not go towards heaven, but go by heaven to heaven, to the heaven of heavens, so the true joy of a good soul in this world is the very joy of heaven
    • John Donne in Sermon LXVI in The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life (1839) edited by Henry Alford, p. 177.
  • He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
    • Jim Elliot, The Journals of Jim Elliot (28 October 1949).
  • Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.
    • Thomas Guthrie, in Christ and the Inheritance of the Saints (1859), p. 22.
  • He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.
  • The redeemed shall walk there.
  • Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
    • Andrew Jackson, in a statement shortly before his death, as quoted in Life of Andrew Jackson (1860) by James Parton, p. 679.
  • Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the holy name of Jesus, calleth to mind his native heavenly land, where his blessed Master, the King of saints and angels, waiteth to receive him. Blessed is the pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world; but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven.
  • The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
    • Johann Kaspar Lavater, as quoted in Laconics: or, the Best Words of the Best Authors (1929) by John Timbs.
  • Through death Christian's soul goes to—1st. Perfect purity 2dly. Fullness of joy. 3dly. Everlasting freedom. 4thly. Perfect rest. 5thly. Health and fruition. 6thly. Complete security. 7thly. Substantial and eternal good.
  • The number of levels in Heaven is the number of verses in the Qur'an. Thus, when a reciter of the Qur'an enters into Heaven, it will be said to him: 'Go up one level for every verse that you can recite.' Thus, no one will be in a higher level than the one who has memorized the entire Qur'an.
    • Muhammad, Biharul Anwar, Volume 92, Page 22; note that the Qur'an has 6,236 verses.
  • The heavens declare the glory of God ; and the firmament showeth his handywork.
  • To everything (turn, turn, turn)
    There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
    And a time for every purpose under heaven.
  • Sure he's not in hell; he's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom.
  • And, father cardinal, I have heard you say
    That we shall see and know our friends in heaven:
    If that be true, I shall see my boy again;
    For since the birth of Cain, the first male child,
    To him that did but yesterday suspire,
    There was not such a gracious creature born.
  • Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.
  • All places that the eye of heaven visits,
    Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
  • Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
  • Heaven's not a place that you go when you die, it's that moment in life when you actually feel alive
  • Yet stay, heaven gates are not so highly arch'd As princes' palaces; they that enter there, Must go upon their knees.
  • 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.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 359-62.
  • 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.
    • Now he [Nebridius] lives in Abraham's bosom.
    • St. Augustine, Confessions, Book IX. 3. De Anima, Book IV. 16. 24. He explains that Abraham's bosom is the remote and secret abode of quiet. Founded on Luke, XVI. 23.
  • 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.
    • Jeremy Collier, Eccl. Hist. (Ed. 1852), IV. 241. Friar Elston's words, when threatened with drowning by Henry VIII, according to Stow, quoted by Gasquet. Same idea ascribed to Sir Humphry Gilbert when his ship was wrecked off Newfoundland. (1583). Idea taken from an Epigram of Leonidas of Tarentum. See Stobæus—Greek Anthology. Jacob's appendix. No. 48.
  • Heaven means to be one with God.
    • Confucius, quoted by Canon Farrar. Sermons. Eternal Hopes. What Heaven Is. Last line.
  • 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.
    • Catherine M. Fanshawe, Enigma. (The letter H). ("'Twas in Heaven pronounced, it was muttered in hell." In the original MS).
  • 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!
    • Philip Henry, Matthew Henry's Life of Philip Henry, p. 70.
  • Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
    The woes of man; Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
    • Homer, The Odyssey, Book VIII, line 128. Pope's translation.
  • Nil mortalibus arduum est;
    Cœlum ipsum petimus stultitia.
    • Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly.
    • Horace, Carmina, Book I. 3. 37.
  • There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.
    • Job, III. 17.
  • In my father's house are many mansions.
    • John, XIV. 2.
  • Sperre dich, so viel du willst!
    Des Himmels Wege sind des Himmels Wege.
    • Struggle against it as thou wilt, yet Heaven's ways are Heaven's ways.
    • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan der Weise, III. 1.
  • 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?)
    • Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, General Booth Enters Heaven.
  • 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.
    • What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, II. 999.
  • Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky,
    Earth's jest a dusty road.
  • Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
    • Matthew, VI. 20.
  • It were a journey like the path to heaven,
    To help you find them.
  • The hasty multitude
    Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,
    And some the architect: his hand was known
    In heaven by many a tower'd structure high,
    Where scepter'd angels held their residence,
    And sat as princes.
  • Though in heav'n the trees
    Of life ambrosial fruitage bear, and vines
    Yield nectar.
  • Heaven open'd wide
    Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound
    On golden hinges moving.
  • 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.
    • Cardinal Newman, A Voice from Afar.
  • 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.
    • Psalms. LXXXIV. 10.
  • 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.
    • The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
    • Seneca, Hercules Furens, CCCCXXXVII.
  • 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.
    • J. A. Symonds, translation P. 37 in Tomson's Selections from the Greek Anthology, in the Canterbury Poets. (Greek is found in Palantine Anthology. No. 3).
  • 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.
  • I have been there, and still would go;
    'Tis like a little heaven below.
  • There is a land of pure delight,
    Where saints immortal reign;
    Infinite day excludes the night,
    And pleasures banish pain.
  • One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
    • Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night V, line 838.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

  • Yes, it is a truth that for a good man,— honored, beloved, useful,— with all around him that God ever gives to His children here;— nay, with all that God could give him of earth, it would be " gain " to die. Heaven is a better, a happier, a more desirable world than this is or can be.
  • One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying " Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore."
  • Beyond the smiling and the weeping,
    I shall be soon;
    Beyond the waking and the sleeping,
    Beyond the sowing and the reaping,
    I shall be soon!
    Love, rest, and home —
    Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come!
  • We are born for a higher destiny than earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.
  • Man has in his power, now developed, nothing more than a mere hint or initial sign of what is to be the real stature of his personality in the process of his everlasting development. We exist here only in the small, that God may have us in a state of flexibility, and bend or fashion us, at the best advantage, to the model of His own great life and character.
  • It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be!
  • In our Father's house it will not be the pearl gate or the streets of gold that will make us happy. But oh, how tran- scendently glad shall we be when we see our Lord. Perhaps in that "upper room," also, He may show us His hands and His side, and we may cry out with happy Thomas, "My Lord and my God!"
  • In heaven, knowledge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified soul.
  • No more fatigue, no more distress,
    Nor sin nor death shall reach the place;
    No groans shall mingle with the songs
    That warble from immortal tongues.
  • What tranquillity will there be in heaven! Who can express the fullness and blessedness of this peace! What a calm is this! How sweet and holy and joyous! What a haven of rest to enter, after having passed through the storms and tempests of this world, in which pride and selfishness and envy and malice and scorn and contempt and contention and vice are as waves of a restless ocean, always rolling, and often dashed about in violence and fury! What a Canaan of rest to come to, after going through this waste and howling wilderness, full of snares and pitfalls and poisonous serpents, where no rest could be found.
  • Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
  • No wearisome days, no sorrowful nights; no hunger or thirst; no anxiety or fears; no envies, no jealousies, no breaches of friendship, no sad separations, no distrusts or forebodings, no self-reproaches, no enmities, no bitter regrets, no tears, no heartaches; "And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away."
  • What we sow here, we reap there! Can it be supposed that the soul will enjoy a reward or endure a retribution for deeds of which it has no recollection? Is the thing possible? Will it enjoy the bliss of heaven, praising Christ forever as its great Saviour, without any remembrance of the sins and sufferings from which He redeemed and saved it? The idea is absurd.
  • Death must obliterate all memories and affections and ideas and laws, or the awakening in the next world will be amid the welcomes, and loves and raptures of those who left us with tearful farewells, and with dying promises that they would wait to welcomes us when we should arrive. And so they do. Not sorrowfully, not anxiously, but lovingly, they wait to bid us welcome.
  • Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow?
  • They are kings and priests unto God. They wear crowns that flash in the everlasting light. They wear robes that are spotlessly white. They wave victorious palms. They sing anthems of such exceeding sweetness as no earthly choirs ever approach. They stand before the throne. They fly on ministries of love. They muse on the top of Mount Zion. They meditate on the banks of the river of life. They are rapturous with ecstasies of love. God wipes away all tears from their eyes.
  • As we look up into these glorious culminations, how grand life becomes! To be forever with the Lord, and forever changing into His likeness, and, still more, forever deepening in the companionship of His thought and bliss, "from glory to glory," — could we desire more?
  • "A little while," and the load
    Shall drop at the pilgrim's feet,
    Where the steep and thorny road
    Doth merge in the golden street.
  • Perhaps heaven may not be so far away as we fancy; and if our eyes were not holden, we should see angels ascending and descending, and blessed spirits thronging all about us.
    • Arthur Henry Kenney, p. 304.
  • With Christ, and like Christ, and not love our friends! Impossible! when He loves them so tenderly. Going into the fuller presence of Him whose very name is "Love" can never make our hearts less loving.
    • Arthur Henry Kenney, p. 305.
  • And then, the quiet of the green, inland valleys of our Father's land, where no tempest comes any more, nor the loud winds are ever heard, nor the salt sea is ever seen; but perpetual calm and blessedness; all mystery gone, and all rebellion hushed and silenced, and all unrest at an end forever! " No more sea;" but, instead of that wild and yeasty chaos of turbulent waters, there shall be the river that makes glad the city of God, the river of water of life, that proceeds "out of the throne of God and of the Lamb."
  • And looking back upon " the sea that brought us thither," we shall behold its waters flashing in the light of that everlasting morning, and hear them breaking into music upon the eternal shore. And then, brethren, when all the weary night-watchers on the stormy ocean of life are gathered together around Him who watched with them from His throne on the bordering mountains of eternity, where the day shines forever — then He will seat them at His table in His kingdom, and none will need to ask, "Who art Thou?" or, "Where am I?" " for all shall know it is the Lord," and the full, perfect, unchangeable vision of His blessed face will be heaven.
  • The joys of heaven are not the joys of passive contemplation, of dreamy remembrance, of perfect repose; but they are described thus: "They rest not day nor night." "His servants serve Him, and see His face."
  • Will not this be the description of our future being — "reaching forth unto those things which are before?" I believe that we shall thus live through all the eternities that are before us, growing wiser, nobler, stronger, greater; plunging deeper into God, and being more and more filled with more and more of Him. So we shall move forever as in ascending spirals that rise ever higher, and draw ever closer to the throne we compass and to Him that dwells alone; ever perfect, yet ever growing, for we have an inexhaustible Saviour to absorb into our hearts, and we have hearts that never reach the ultimate bound and term of their indefinite possibility of receiving.
  • Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition — a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.
  • When this passing world is done,
    When has sunk yon, glowing sun,
    When we stand with Christ in glory,
    Looking o'er life's f1nished story,
    Then, Lord, shall I fully know —
    Not till then — how much I owe.
  • Then re-united to the friends with whom vve took sweet counsel upon earth, we shall recount our toil, only to heighten our ecstasy; and call to mind the toil and the din of war, oniy that, with a more bounding throb and a richer song, we may fee! and celebrate the wonders of redemption.
  • There is not such a great difference between grace and glory after all. Grace is the bud, and glory is the blossom. Grace is glory begun; and glory is grace perfected. It won't come hard to people that are serving God down here to do it when they go up yonder. They will change places, but they won't change employments.
  • Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.
  • God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.
  • After the fever of life — after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding — after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death — at length the white throne of God — at length the beatific vision.
  • Oh, heaven without my Saviour
    Would be no heaven to me;
    Dim were the walls of jasper —
    Rayless the crystal sea.
    He gilds earth's darkest valleys
    With light and joy and peace;
    What then must be the radiance
    When night and death shall cease?
    • Helen L. Parmlee, p. 303.
  • I change my place, but not my company. While here I have sometimes walked with God, and now I go to rest with Him,
    • Dr. Preston, p. 304.
  • I shall know the loved who have gone before,
    And joyfully sweet will the meeting be,
    When over the river, the peaceful river,
    The angel of death shall carry me.
    • N. A. W. Priest, p. 305.
  • Rejoice, oh! grieving heart,
    The hours fly past;
    With each some sorrow dies,
    With each some shadow flies,
    Until at last
    The red dawn in the east
    Bids weary night depart,
    And pain is past.
  • Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.
  • Oil, when shall the night be gone, the shadows flee away, and the morning of that long, long day, without cloud or night, dawn.
  • When the day of toil is done,
    When the race of life is run,
    Father, grant Thy wearied one
    Rest for evermore!
    When the heart by sorrow tried
    Feels at length its throbs subside,
    Bring us, where all tears are dried,
    Joy for evermore!
    • C. C. Scholefield, p. 309.
  • O rest of rests! O peace serene, eternal!
    Thou ever livest, and Thou changest never!
    And in the secret of Thy presence dwelleth
    Fullness of joy, forever and forever.
    • Mrs. H. B. Stowe, p. 299.
  • We should carry up our affections to the mansions prepared for us above, where eternity is the measure, felicity the state, angels the company, the Lamb the light, and God the inheritance and portion of His people forever.
  • O, land of rest, how near thou art! O, judgment-seat of Jesus, how thin are the clouds that veil thee! Through the rifts of cloudland shine rays from this righteous crown. It is "laid up" for him whose hope can never be satisfied with less than the presence of the King.
    • Stephen H. Tyng, Jr, p. 302.
  • An everlasting tranquillity is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.
    • Zimmerman, p. 301.
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