#heaven

Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory. ↗

— J.C. Ryle

#christ #christianity #christianlife #christians #cross

The Bible says that each person is a sinner and everyone is wicked in the sight of God. God cannot allow sin into Heaven, so we must get rid of our sin somehow. If we don’t, then we have no hope of Heaven.” Jesus is the only one who can take our sins away. The Bible says that God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Jesus came down from Heaven and died on the cross for our sins. ↗

— J.E.B. Spredemann

#heaven #jesus #sin #death

Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven. ↗

— Ron Rash

#heaven #inspirational #death

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#fantasy #heaven #life #middle-earth #death

Would you go to heaven with flesh,young foolish soul? Repent and die, a hundred percent certainty. ↗

— Michael Bassey Johnson

#heaven #repentance #death

A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually remember my dreams.) I dreamed I had died and gone to Heaven. I looked about and knew where I was-green fields, fleecy clouds, perfumed air, and the distant, ravishing sound of the heavenly choir. And there was the recording angel smiling broadly at me in greeting. I said, in wonder, "Is this Heaven?" The recording angel said, "It is." I said (and on waking and remembering, I was proud of my integrity), "But there must be a mistake. I don't belong here. I'm an atheist." "No mistake," said the recording angel. "But as an atheist how can I qualify?" The recording angel said sternly, "We decide who qualifies. Not you." "I see," I said. I looked about, pondered for a moment, then turned to the recording angel and asked, "Is there a typewriter here that I can use?" The significance of the dream was clear to me. I felt Heaven to be the act of writing, and I have been in Heaven for over half a century and I have always known this. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#heaven #writing #dreams

Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#heaven #dreams

There once was a girl who found herself dead. She peered over the ledge of heaven and saw that back on earth her sister missed her too much, was way too sad, so she crossed some paths that would not have crossed, took some moments in her hand shook them up and spilled them like dice over the living world. It worked. The boy with the guitar collided with her sister. "There you go, Len," she whispered. "The rest is up to you. ↗

— Jandy Nelson

#grief #heaven #sisters #death

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#day #enter #gates #god #heaven

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death." ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#comes #condition #death #earth #heart