Almost every religion in the world believes in an afterlife, although heaven can look different to different people. For some, heaven is the paradise where they would spend eternity with God if they had lived their lives in a manner that pleased Him.
However, for others, heaven is a state of mind or a place on earth. Regardless of which perspective you subscribe to, here are 94 quotes on heaven to calm your soul and make your heart soar!
Quotes About Heaven for Christians
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
C. S. Lewis
“If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.”
Mahalia Jackson
“You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.”
Corrie Ten Boom
“As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven’s list.”
Rick Warren
“But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.”
Jesus Christ
“The most thrilling thing about heaven is that Jesus Christ will be there. I will see Him face to face. Jesus Christ will meet us at the end of life’s journey.”
Billy Graham
“On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.”
Jules Renard
“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”
Thomas Moore
“The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.”
Rick Warren
“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”
Mother Teresa
“Jesus said, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.’ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‘kingdom,’ he would have said, ‘dimension.’ And ‘heaven’ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.”
Eckhart Tolle
“Earth’s crammed with heaven.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Joy is the serious business of Heaven.”
C. S. Lewis
“Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“The Bible says, angels rejoice in heaven when one sinner comes to Christ.”
Carol Nkambule
“We ought to fly away from earth to Heaven as quickly as we can. And to fly away is to become like God, far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.”
Plato
“He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.”
Matthew Henry
“Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.”
Rudyard Kipling
“True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.”
Charles Spurgeon
“Always look heavenward in any situation. Trust God to grant you the needed grace and strength to overcome the situation.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“With deep humility, we shall behold the heavenly blessings.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“Endeavor to create heaven on earth and turn your heart into the new Jerusalem.”
Bangambiki Habyarimana
“Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.”
John R. Rice
“For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be forever with Him.”
William Barclay
“Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.”
Phillips Brooks
“Those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.”
D. A. Carson
“The nearer anyone is to heaven, the more earnestly he desires to be there, because Christ is there.”
John Owen
“If you keep your eyes so fixed on Heaven that you never look at the Earth, you will stumble into Hell.”
Austin O’Malley
“Heaven is not a figment of imagination. It is not a feeling or an emotion. It is not the “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere.” It is a prepared place for a prepared people.”
Dr. David Jeremiah
“What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible’s sixty-six books, and the final two chapters of the Bible are a virtual travelogue of our heavenly home. To visualize heaven accurately, study the Bible continually.”
Dr. David Jeremiah
“Every trouble that you are facing today, every sorrow and despair, look up into the Heavens and feel the Divine protection of your Creator.”
Patricia A Gilpin-Hudson
“Sin and its consequences have no part in God’s glorious Heaven.”
Matthew Robert Payne
“Therefore, it is important to realize that in eternity there are only two choices: Heaven or Hell. What we choose to do with God and His Son Jesus on earth will determine where we spend eternity.”
Mark J. Musser
“The Bible teaches us that if we trust in Jesus Christ, He is preparing a home for us in Heaven.”
John Stange
“No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.”
John Mason Brown
“We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.”
Russell M. Nelson
“It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.”
Jonathan Edwards
“Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us, as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same being who created us, could have given us five hundred if he had pleased.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.”
John Wesley
“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Christians have a dual citizenship – on earth and in heaven – and our citizenship in heaven ought to make us better people here on earth.”
Warren W. Wiersbe
“Heaven on earth is a reality for me by faith.”
Alex Uwajeh
“Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.”
Greg Laurie
“Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now.”
Rick Warren
“We cannot even begin to imagine how wonderful heaven is.”
Catherine Pulsifer
“Heaven itself has ordained the right.”
George WashingtonSee Also51 Bible Verses about Heaven
“Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition–a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.”
Alexander MacLaren
“You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.”
Samuel Rutherford
“When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.”
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
“The soul on earth is an immortal guest, compelled to starve at an unreal feast; a pilgrim panting for the rest to come; an exile, anxious for his native home.”
Hannah More
“God’s Word is the tool the Holy Spirit uses to change our worldly thinking to heavenly thinking.”
Elizabeth George
“The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.”
John Burroughs
“We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.”
Charles Spurgeon
“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”
William Shakespeare
“For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.”
Lou Holtz
“Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is great, but mainly great when viewed in its relation to the world to come.”
Albert Barnes
“Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.”
Wayne Dyer
“My soul can find no staircase to Heaven, unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.”
Michelangelo
“There is only one way to be certain that you are on your way to Heaven and that is through faith in Jesus.”
John Stange
“To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.”
Jonathan Edwards
“Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.”
William Gurnall
General Heaven Quotes
“To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.”
Alan Cohen
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.”
Joseph Addison
“Life is short and if you’re looking for extension, you had best do well. ‘Cause there’s good deeds and then there’s good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.”
Ben Harper
“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.”
John Lubbock
“Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.”
George Orwell
“Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.”
John Donne
“There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.”
Robert Quillen
“There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom.”
Bangambiki Habyariman
“Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning, and which permeates all heaven.”
Laozi
“All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.”
Epictetus
“Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.”
Blaise Pascal
“In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
Fredrich Nietzsche
“Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues to long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.”
Lao Tzu
“Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.”
Mencius
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
Steve Jobs
“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”
Abraham Lincoln
“We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.”
Desmond Tutu
“The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
John Milton
“Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”
Walter Savage Landor
“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.”
Galileo Galilei
“The way to heaven is not being up above in the sky, it is being down to the earth.”
P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
Mark Twain
“The kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart, not something that comes upon the earth or after death.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I fear lies more than death. Simply, because even the ideas of heaven and hell might fall within its domain.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo
“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
William Blake
“There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.”
Mark Twain
“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
William Shakespeare
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
Plautus
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven, or hell.”
Buddha
Wrapping Up
Whether heaven is a place where you plan to spend eternity or what you consider a state of mind, these quotes are sure to inspire and give you a different perspective.
