Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

I would go to heaven, if I believed in heaven.

I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in a state of bliss.

Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

One day we will see our animals again in eternity of Christ. Paradise is open to all God’s creatures.

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.

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

I wonder whether they have rum and Coke in Heaven? Maybe it's too mundane a pleasure, but I hope so -- as a sundowner. Except, of course, the sun never goes down there. Oh, man, this heaven is going to take some getting used to.

You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

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.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?

Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.

Whatever happens when we die, it would be really weird if it was what we had expected. Even if you were a lifelong Christian believer, it would be kind of weird if there actually were pearly gates.

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.