George Whitefield Quotes

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

Death is the most blessed dream.

The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.

You've got a lot to look forward to in Heaven. Compared to what's in store for you in Heaven, your current pain and problems are petty.

We shall then have joy without sorrow, and rest without weariness...Be of good cheer, Christian, the time is near, when God and thou shalt be near, and as near as thou canst well desire. Thou shalt dwell in his family.

It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.

In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.

Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."

Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that.

Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!

Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

UNUSED LYRIC I’ve never been to Eden But it’s nice I hear tell When I die I’ll go to heaven ’Cause I’ve done my time in hell

If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling.

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.

To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.

And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.

Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face.

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.