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Found 100 quotes matching your search:  Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Patience | | We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming a man, to help man. Whoever heard of Jupiter or Mars or Minerva coming down and attempting to bear the burdens of men? The gods were willing enough to receive the gifts of men, but Christianity is unique in the fact that our God became a man with human infirmity and emptied Himself of the glory of heaven, in order that He might take upon Himself the sins, diseases and weakness of our humanity. Author: A.C. Dixon
Topics: God | | Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Thankfulness | | I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Worship, Heaven | | Holiness becomes every house well, but best God's; and every man, but most of all the minister, who is the mirror in which the people behold heaven, and the convoy to direct them thither. Author: Abraham Wright
Topics: Holiness | | The high heaven covereth as well tall mountains as small mole hills, and mercy can cover all. The more desperate thy disease, the greater is the glory of thy physician, who hath perfectly cured thee. Author: Abraham Wright
Topics: Mercy, Healing | |
| | I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they're counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they've never been born again. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Hell, Religion, Self-righteousness | | I wouldn't trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Heaven | | The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Church, Heaven | | It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery. Author: Adrian Rogers
Topics: Blessings, Satan | | Christians should be grave and serious, though cheerful and pleasant. They should feel that they have great interests at stake, and that the world has too. They are redeemed--not to make sport; purchased with precious blood--for other purposes than to make men laugh. They are soon to be in heaven--and a man who has any impressive sense of that will habitually feel he has much else to do than to make men laugh. The true course of life is midway between moroseness and levity; sourness and lightness; harshness and jesting. Be benevolent, kind, cheerful, bland, courteous--but serious. Be solemn, thoughtful, deeply impressed with the presence of God and with eternal things--but pleasant affable and benignant. Think not a smile sinful; but think not levity and jesting harmless. Author: Albert Barnes
Topics: Christians | | Our earthly possessions will indeed perish in the final wreck of all things; but let the ship perish, let all we have sink in the deep, if we may come "safe to land." From these storms and billows--these dangerous seas--these tempestuous voyages--may we all be brought at last safe to heaven. Author: Albert Barnes
Topics: Heaven | | When life has been well spent; when there is a conscience without reproach; when there is faith in the Saviour; when there is a well-founded hope of heaven, there can be nothing that should disquiet us. Author: Albert Barnes
Topics: Life | | The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Heaven | | The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Heaven | | Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition--a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: 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." Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Joy, Heaven | | Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Faith, Holiness | | The Christian will be sure to make enemies. It will be one of his objects to make none; but if doing what is right and believing what is true should cause him to lose every earthly friend, he will regard it as a small loss, since his great Friend in heaven will be even more friendly and will reveal Himself to him more graciously than ever. Author: Alistair Begg
Topics: Enemies | | At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us. Author: Alistair Begg
Topics: Mercy | | Christian Youth of America, can you not hear the call of God in this hour? All heaven awaits the moment when you will arise and ACT on behalf of your generation. Author: Andrew Strom
Topics: Youth | Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
- Benjamin Franklin Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: God, Prayer, Business | He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.
- Christopher Love Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Evangelism, Heaven | If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.
- Christopher Love Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Heaven, Grace | God walls the sea with sand. God clears the air with storms. God warms the earth with snow. He exalts us to heaven by the stumbling-block of the cross.
- Christopher Wordsworth Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Jesus, The Cross | Let no man carry you beyond the bounds God hath set for you, nor make you believe he hath found a plainer or more certain way to heaven than Christ hath given us.
- Edward Stillingfleet Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Contentment | Every path that leads to heaven is trodden by willing feet. No one is ever driven to paradise.
- Howard Crosby Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Heaven | If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!
- Keith Green Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Worship, Heaven, The Heart | I shall hear in Heaven.
- Ludwig von Beethoven Author: Assorted Authors
Source: Dying words.
Topics: Heaven | The empyrean heaven saved not the angels who in that heaven committed sin. The terrestrial Paradise saved not Adam, who in that paradise committed sin. And dost thou presume to hope in the Church for impunity of those evils which in the Church you perpetrate?
- Paolo Segneri Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Angels, Sin | This [pride] is the strong castle that we all keep garrisoned against heaven in every one of our hearts, which God continually layeth seige unto.
- Ralph Cudworth Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Pride | And now the kingdom of heaven arises before us in its altogether new dignity, so that he in it who is least is greater than the greatest who are without and at its threshold.
- Rudolph Stier Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Heaven | There is no mystery in heaven or earth so great as this - a suffering Deity, an almighty Saviour nailed to a Cross.
- Sameul M. Zwemer Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Atonement, The Cross | Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.
- William Romaine Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Gratitude, Heaven | | God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there. Author: Billy Graham
Topics: Heaven, Animals | | My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world. Author: Billy Graham
Topics: Heaven, Home | | The difference between God's side and the devil's is the difference between heaven and hell. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Good and Evil | | God keeps no half-way house. It's either heaven or hell for you and me. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Heaven, Hell | | A man can slip into hell with his hand on the door-knob of heaven. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Hell | | Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Life | | The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death. That's the point. It should keep us humbled... It's not our own good works that get us through the gates of Heaven. Author: Bono
Topics: The Cross, Humility | | Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: The Problem of Pain
Topics: Heaven | | Joy is the serious business of Heaven. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Heaven, Joy | | Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: A Grief Observed
Topics: Heaven | | Looking for God--or Heaven--by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: 'The Seeing Eye', Christian Reflections
Topics: God, Heaven | | No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: Miracles
Topics: Philosophy, Scripture, Truth | | Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Heaven, Perseverance | | It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Life, Comfort | | We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all." Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Attitude | | Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die-or if need be, to win and die! "The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. Author: Charles Finney
Topics: Revival | | Only he who flings himself upward when the pull comes to drag him down, can hope to break the force of temptation. Temptation may be an invitation to hell, but much more is it an opportunity to reach heaven. Author: Charles H. Brent
Topics: Temptation | | Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Hell, Freedom | | If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Heaven | | Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermons, 11.75.
Topics: Satan, Hell | | A man is not far from the gates of heaven when he is fully submissive to the Lord's will. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Submission | | Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Christians, Grace | | Concerning homosexuality: This once brought hell out of heaven on Sodom. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Hell | | Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Heaven | | Do not say, "I cannot help having a bad temper." Friend, you must help it. Pray to God to help you overcome it at once, for either you must kill it, or it will kill you. You cannot carry a bad temper into heaven. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Anger | | Everything that has moved or shall move in heaven, and earth, and hell, has been, is, and shall be according to the counsel and foreknowledge of God, fulfilling a holy, just, wise and unalterable purpose! Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: God | | I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Apathy | | I think beloved, it will not be hard for you to learn. The angels of heaven rejoice over Sinners that repent: saints of God, will not you and I do the same? I do not think the church rejoices enough. We all grumble enough and groan enough: but very few of us rejoice enough. When we take a large number into the church it is spoken of as a great mercy; but is the greatness of that mercy appreciated? Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: The Sympathy of the Two Worlds, Sermon, Luke 15:10.
Topics: Joy | | I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Redemption | | If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Preaching | | If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermons, 6.354.
Topics: Heaven, Grace | | If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Hell | | No man hath a right to claim God as his Father, unless he feeleth in his soul, and believeth, solemnly, through the faith of God's election, that he has been adopted into the one family of which is in heaven and earth, and that he has been regenerated or born again. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Conviction, Conversion | | Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Praise | | Since He is the only God, the Creator of heaven and earth, He cannot endure that any creature of His own hands, or fiction of a creature's imagination should be thrust into His throne, and be made to wear His crown. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: A Jealous God, Sermon 502, March 29, 1863.
Topics: God | | Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude. But believers are not compared to bears or lions or other animals that wander alone. Those who belong to Christ are sheep in this respect, that they love to get together. Sheep go in flocks, and so do God's people. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermons, 30.597.
Topics: Fellowship | | The best moment of a Christian's life is his last one, because it is the one that is nearest heaven. And then it is that he begins to strike the keynote of the song which he shall sing to all eternity. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Eternity | | The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Affliction | | There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Heaven | | To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in this world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermons, 11.431.
Topics: Evangelism | | A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven. Author: Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Pain, Discouragement | | Emmanuel. God with us. He who resided in Heaven, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, willingly descended into our world. He breathed our air, felt our pain, knew our sorrows, and died for our sins. He didn't come to frighten us, but to show us the way to warmth and safety. Author: Chuck Swindoll
Source: The Finishing Touch. Christianity Today, v. 40, n. 14.
Topics: The Trinity, Salvation | | No man can resolve himself into Heaven. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Heaven | | We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Heaven | | Earth is receding; heaven is approaching. This is my crowning day! Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Heaven | | Earth recedes, heaven opens. I've been through the gates! Don't call me back ... if this is death, it's sweet. Dwight! Irene! I see the children's faces. [Dwight and Irene were his dead grandchildren.] Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Death | | How far away is Heaven? It is not so far as some imagine. It wasn't very far from Daniel. It was not so far off that Elijah's prayer and those of others could not be heard there. Men full of the Spirit can look right into heaven. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Heaven | | When the Spirit came to Moses, the plagues came upon Egypt, and he had power to destroy men's lives; when the Spirit came upon Elijah, fire came down from heaven; when the Spirit came upon Gideon, no man could stand before him; and when it came upon Joshua, he moved around the city of Jericho and the whole city fell into his hands; but when the Spirit came upon the Son of Man, He gave His life; He healed the broken-hearted. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Holy Spirit | | "But," a man said to me, "no one has come back, and we don't know what is in the future. It is all dark, and how can we be sure?" Thank God! Christ came down from heaven, and I would rather have Him coming as he does right from the bosom of the Father, than any one else. We can rely on what Christ says, and He says, "He that believeth on Me shall not perish, but have everlasting life." Not that we are going to have it when we die, but right here to-day. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Eternity | | There is either of two things we must do. One is to send back the message to heaven that we don't want the blood of Christ to cleanse us of our sin, or else accept it. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Salvation | | Believing and confessing go together; and you cannot be be saved without you take them both. "With the mouth confession is made unto salvation." If you ever see the kingdom of heaven you have to take this way. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Believing, Confession | | If you are under the power of evil, and you want to get under the power of God, cry to Him to bring you over to His service; cry to Him to take you into His army. He will hear you; He will come to you, and, if need be, He will send a legion of angels to help you to fight your way up to heaven. God will take you by the right hand and lead you through this wilderness, over death, and take you right into His kingdom. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Repentance | | I would rather go into the kingdom of heaven through the poor house than go down to hell in a golden chariot. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Heaven, Hell | | Do you believe that He would send those men out to preach the gospel to every creature unless he wanted every creature to be saved? Do you believe He would tell them to preach it to people without giving people the power to accept it? Do you believe the God of heaven is mocking men by offering them his gospel and not giving them the power to take hold of it? Do you believe He will not give men power to accept this salvation as a gift? Man might do that, but God never mocks men. And when he says "Preach the gospel to every creature," every creature can be saved if he will. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Salvation | | How could we enjoy heaven if during our lifetime we had used most of our time, treasure, and talents for ourselves and our select group? Author: Daniel Fuller
Source: The Unity of the Bible
Topics: Heaven, Selfishness | | For God to forgive sinners without the full penalty being paid would contradict His justice and make Him our partner in evil. Christ fully paid that penalty for our sins--but the pardon must be willingly and gladly received. God will not force anyone into heaven. Author: Dave Hunt
Topics: Justice, Salvation | | Heaven has no place for the erroneous belief that Christ died because we are worth it. Christ's death in our place had nothing to do with our worth but with the depths of our sin, the demands made by God's justice, and His eternal glory. Author: Dave Hunt
Topics: Self-esteem | | When the promised inheritance of heaven (which was figured by the pleasant land of promise), is not counted worthy of all the pains and difficulties which can be sustained and met with in the way of going toward it; the promised inheritance is but little esteemed of. Author: David Dickson
Topics: Heaven | | There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying. Author: E.M. Bounds
Topics: Prayer, Perseverance, Attitude | | The church is not a democracy in which we have chosen God, but a theocracy in which He has chosen us. The church is the only society in the world that never loses any of its members, even by death. The church upon its knees would bring heaven upon the earth. Author: E.M. Bounds
Topics: Unity | | Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet. Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Topics: Service | | Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for. Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Source: Keep a Quiet Heart .
Topics: Heaven | | At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable. Author: Erwin Lutzer
Topics: Death, Heaven | | Tears are the material out of which heaven weaves its brightest rainbow. Author: F.B. Meyer
Topics: Anxiety | | Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue. Author: Francis Quarles
Topics: Repentance, The Tongue | | We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven. Author: Francois Fenelon
Topics: Service, Leadership, Gentleness |
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Found 100 quotes containing your search: | We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Heaven, Trials, Overcoming | | Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Author: A.B. Simpson
Topics: Christianity | | So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms. We make God responsible for our safety when we abandon other defense, and commit ourselves to Him. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Faith | | Ordinary human motives will appeal in vain to the ears which have heard the tones of the heavenly music; and all the pomp of life will show poor and tawdry to the sight that has gazed on the vision of the great white throne and the crystal sea. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Holiness | | There is little doubt that the effective ministry of the Word today continues to be significantly undergirded by men and women who find great fulfillment in the supportive role entrusted to them by our heavenly Father. Author: Alistair Begg
Topics: Service | | Do not confound work and fruit. There may be a good deal of work for Christ that is not the fruit of the heavenly Vine. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Service | | Prayer is the natural and joyous breathing of the spiritual life by which the heavenly atmosphere is inhaled and then exhaled in prayer. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Prayer | | Unless we are willing to pay the price, and sacrifice time and attention and what appear legitimate or necessary duties, for the sake of the heavenly gifts we need not look for a large experience of the power of the heavenly world in our work. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Gifts, Service | | God's purpose in promising to reward with heavenly and eternal honors the faithful service of His saints is to win them from the pursuit of earthly riches and pleasures, to sustain them in the fires of persecution, and to encourage them in the exercise of Christian virtues. Author: C.I. Scofield
Topics: Persecution, Virtue, Rewards | | Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Service, Time | | Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: The Minister's Fainting Fits, Lectures to My Students, Lecture XI, 1856.
Topics: Depression, Trials | | Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer, Peace | | Christ the Lord is risen today, Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply. Author: Charles Wesley
Topics: Atonement, Resurrection | | Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees. Author: Daniel Webster
Topics: Prayer | | If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice? Author: David Livingstone
Topics: Obedience, Sacrifice | | It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide. Author: Desiderius Erasmus
Topics: Theology | | How much of these destructive elements, esteemed by men, does the devil bring into the church, until all the high, unworldly and holy aims, and heavenly objects of the church are retired and forgotten? Author: E.M. Bounds
Topics: Apathy, Church, Worldliness | | Why grow we weary when asked to watch with our Lord? Up, sluggish heart, Jesus calls thee! Rise and go forth to meet the Heavenly Friend in the place where He manifests Himself. Author: E.M. Bounds
Topics: God, The Heart | | The God who created, names and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the stars of my head. He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life. Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Topics: Life | | Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy - in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible. Author: F.B. Meyer
Topics: Holiness, Prayer, The Bible | | The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven. Author: Frederick W. Robertson
Topics: Service, Discipline | | Revival cannot be organized, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again. Author: G. Campbell Morgan
Topics: Revival | | The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. Author: G.K. Chesterton
Topics: Life | | Strange that I am not ever looking up, if I expect to see the door of heaven open, and the One I love coming out. Oh! what a scene, when He comes forth to change these vile bodies, fashioning them like to His own glorious body! Author: G.V. Wigram
Topics: Heaven | | Shall we find that we have experienced all Christ's love here, when we meet Him in heaven? Author: G.V. Wigram
Topics: Heaven | | If the God of heaven is occupied with us, how many thoughts ought not we to have of that God? It is only as occupied with God and with Christ that we can be unworldly. Author: G.V. Wigram
Topics: Godliness | | Are you ready to go at once straight into heaven, if the gates were thrown open? What manner of persons ought we to be to say it! Are we walking in a way perfectly consistent with stepping tonight at once into the glory, to be at home in the Father's house? Author: G.V. Wigram
Topics: Eternity, Holiness | | Do I walk as a heavenly man--my ways, my conversation, the ways and conversation of a man whom Christ has stooped to wash in His blood? Author: G.V. Wigram
Topics: Godliness | | He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. Author: George Herbert
Topics: Forgiveness | | Oh, how very kind and good my heavenly Father has been to me! I have no aches or pains, no rheumatism, and now in my ninety-third year I can do a day's work at the orphan houses with as much ease and comfort to myself as ever. Author: George Mueller
Topics: Grace, Gratitude, Comfort | | Heaven itself has ordained the right. Author: George Washington
Topics: Heaven | | What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand! Author: George Whitefield
Topics: Heaven | | How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended. Author: George Whitefield
Topics: Rest | | No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven. Author: George Whitefield
Topics: Women | | If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls "mounting up with wings as eagles" to the "heavenly places" in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us. Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
Topics: Surrender | | That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your soul into the dust, may henceforth be a glorious chariot to carry you to the heights of heavenly patience and long-suffering. Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
Topics: Suffering, Patience | | How often we say about our earthly friends, "I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them." And shouldn't we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend, that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is. Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
Topics: Friendship, Prayer | | No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Perseverance | | What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father. Author: Henry Blackaby
Topics: Christians, Obedience, Witnessing | | All revival begins, and continues, in the prayer meeting. Some have also called prayer the "great fruit of revival." In times of revival, thousands may be found on their knees for hours, lifting up their heartfelt cries, with thanksgiving, to heaven. Author: Henry Blackaby
Source: Revival Scenes, Revival Commentary, v. 1, n. 1.
Topics: Revival, Prayer | | To enter Heaven a man must take it with him. Author: Henry Drummond
Topics: Heaven | | The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children. Author: Henry Drummond
Topics: Kindness | | The entrance fee into the kingdom of heaven is nothing: the annual subscription is everything. Author: Henry Drummond
Topics: Heaven, Surrender | | Where is the capacity for heaven to come from if it be not developed on earth? Where, indeed, is even the smallest appreciation of God and heaven to come from when so little of spirituality has ever been known or manifested here? Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 116.
Topics: Heaven | | Escape means nothing more than the gradual emergence of the higher being from the lower, and nothing less. It means the gradual putting off of all that cannot enter the higher state, or heaven, and simultaneously the putting on of Christ. It involves the slow completing of the soul and the development of the capacity for God. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 117.
Topics: Conversion | | We hear much of love to God; Christ spoke much of love to man. We make a great deal of peace with heaven; Christ spoke much of peace on earth. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: The Greatest Thing in the World.
Topics: Love, Peace | | This earthly mind may be of noble calibre, enriched by culture, high-toned, virtuous, and pure. But if it know not God? What though its correspondences reach to the stars of heaven or grasp the magnitudes of Time and Space? The stars of heaven are not heaven. Space is not God. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Death, p. 158.
Topics: Creation | | To correspond with the God of Science, the Eternal Unknowable, would be everlasting existence; to correspond with "the true God and Jesus Christ," is Eternal Life. The quality of the Eternal Life alone makes the heaven; mere everlastingness might be no boon. Even the brief span of the temporal life is too long for those who spend its years in sorrow. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 220.
Topics: Eternal Life | | To correspond with the God of Science, the Eternal Unknowable, would be everlasting existence; to correspond with "the true God and Jesus Christ," is Eternal Life. The quality of the Eternal Life alone makes the heaven; mere everlastingness might be no boon. Even the brief span of the temporal life is too long for those who spend its years in sorrow. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, p. 220.
Topics: Eternal Life | | Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Children | | Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Charity | | Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Heaven | | Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Love, Music | | Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Suffering | | The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Blessings, The Heart, Thankfulness | | Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Heaven, God | | The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Anxiety | | If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven. Author: Hosea Ballou
Topics: Children, Gratitude, Parents | | I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. Author: Isaac Newton
Topics: Character | | To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven. Author: J.C. Ryle
Topics: Prayer | | What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element, and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits, and character. Author: J.C. Ryle
Topics: Heaven | | A good conscience will save no man, wash away no sin, not lift us one hair's breadth towards heaven. Yet a good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour. Author: J.C. Ryle
Topics: Conscience, Death | | Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness, pride in our own deserts. Nothing is so likely to keep a man out of heaven, and prevent him seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something, we shall never be saved. Author: J.C. Ryle
Topics: Pride | | The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell. Author: J.C. Ryle
Topics: Heaven | | When an eagle is happy in an iron cage, when a sheep is happy in water, when an owl is happy in the blaze of the noonday sun, when a fish is happy on dry land - then, and not till then, will I admit that the unsanctified man could be happy in heaven. Author: J.C. Ryle
Topics: Heaven | | Without holiness on earth we shall never be prepared to enjoy heaven. Heaven is a holy place. The Lord of heaven is a holy Being. The angels are holy creatures. Holiness is written on everything in heaven... How shall we ever be at home and happy in heaven if we die unholy? Author: J.C. Ryle
Source: Holiness.
Topics: Holiness, Heaven | | Love is a heavenly quality that is given to prepare men to enjoy the heavenly city more. Author: Jack Hyles
Topics: Love, Heaven | | The most holy men are always the most humble men; none so humble on earth as those that live highest in heaven. Author: James H. Aughey
Topics: Humility, Men | | There is no man that goeth to heaven but he must go by the cross. The cross is the standing way-mark which all they that go to glory must pass by. Author: James H. Aughey
Topics: Heaven, The Cross | | Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Marriage | | What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Atheism, Foolishness, Creation | | The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like ram from heaven. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Prayer | | It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Reasoning, Music, Beauty | | A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety, her industry his surest wealth, her economy his safest steward, her lips his faithful counsellors, her bosom the softest pillow of his cares. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Marriage, Music | | There are two 'courts' we must deal with: the court of God in Heaven and the court of conscience in our souls. When we first trust in Christ for salvation, God's court is forever satisfied. Never again will a charge of guilt be brought against us in Heaven. Our consciences, however, are continually pronouncing us guilty. That is the function of conscience. Therefore, we must by faith bring the verdict of conscience into line with the verdict of Heaven. We do this by agreeing with our conscience about our guilt, but then reminding it that our guilt has already been borne by Christ. Author: Jerry Bridges
Topics: Justice, Forgiveness, Conscience | | No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention; no circumstance is so big that He cannot control it. Author: Jerry Bridges
Topics: Life | | We need to give our total focus to the business of reaching this world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and stop running down meaningless rabbit trails that get our focus off of our heavenly purpose. Author: Jerry Falwell
Topics: Evangelism, Perseverance | | When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God. Author: Jim Bakker
Topics: Death | | Then I saw that there was a way to Hell, even from the gates of Heaven. Author: John Bunyan
Topics: Hell | | The devil is nimble; he can run apace; he is light of foot; he hath overtaken many. They that would have heaven must run for it. Author: John Bunyan
Topics: Satan | | [Faith] doth not, as doth unbelief and ignorance, show us all things out of order; putting darkness for light, and bitter for sweet; but will set every thing in its proper place before our eyes; God and Christ shall be with it, the chiefest good, the most lovely and amiable; a heavenly life shall be of greater esteem, and more desirable, than all the treasures of Egypt! Righteousness and sanctification will be the thing after which it will most vehemently press; because it seeth not only death and damnation as the fruits of sin, but sin also in itself, distinct from the punishment belonging to it, a detestable, horrible, and odious thing. Author: John Bunyan
Topics: Faith, Righteousness, Sanctification | | Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other. Author: John Bunyan
Topics: Christians, Encouragement | | The people of the Lord in humility are to lay themselves and their prayers, and all that they have, at the foot of their God, to be disposed of by him as he in his heavenly wisdom seeth best. Yet not doubting but God will answer the desire of his people that way that shall be most for their advantage and his glory. When the saints therefore do pray with submission to the will of God, it doth not argue that they are to doubt or question God's love and kindness to them. But because they at all times are not so wise, but that sometimes Satan may get that advantage of them, as to tempt them to pray for that which, if they had it, would neither prove to God's glory nor his people's good. Author: John Bunyan
Topics: Humility, Doubt, Submission | | He has his back to the world, his face toward heaven and a Book in his hand. Author: John Bunyan
Topics: Justice | | Indeed this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world - namely, that a righteousness that resides with a Person in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth. Author: John Bunyan
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury
Topics: Justification | | Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Education, Ignorance | | If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Heaven, Wealth | | Now, in order that true religion may shine upon us, we ought to hold that it must take its beginning from heavenly doctrine and that no one can get even the slightest taste of right and sound doctrine unless he be a pupil of Scripture. Author: John Calvin
Source: Institutes, Scripture.
Topics: Doctrine, Scripture | | Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Scripture | | When Christ returned to heaven, He withdrew His physical presence from our sight. He didn't stop being with the disciples but by the ascension fulfilled His promise to be with us to the end of the world. As His body was raised to heaven, so His power and reign have spread to the uttermost parts. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Comfort | | The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt. Author: John Chrysostom
Topics: Prayer | | Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings. Author: John Chrysostom
Topics: Prayer | | The fact that the Christian church was able to endure centuries of persecution and survived centuries of neglect and opposition is difficult to explain apart from the system of theology stemming from belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of God who actually died, rose, and ascended into heaven. Author: John F. Walvoord
Topics: Persecution | | I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian in a good frame, and how serious, heavenly, and profitable, will his converses and duties be! what a lovely companion is he during the continuance of it! Author: John Flavel
Topics: Christians | | When the corn is nearly ripe it bows the head and stoops lower than when it was green. When the people of God are near ripe for heaven, they grow more humble and self-denying... Paul had one foot in heaven when he called himself the chiefest of sinners and least of saints. Author: John Flavel
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury
Topics: Humility | | When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory. Author: John Foxe
Topics: Persecution, Heaven | | What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ? Author: John Henry Newman
Topics: Contentment | | If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: "God with us." We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ. The greater truth of the holiday is His deity. More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth! Author: John MacArthur
Topics: Christmas | | There are basically only two kinds of religion in the world: those based on human achievement and those based on divine accomplishment. One says you can earn your way to heaven; the other says you must trust in Jesus Christ alone. Author: John MacArthur
Topics: Religion | | If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there. Author: John Newton
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