James Montgomery Quotes

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.

One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the props have been knocked from under it. There must be another world beside this swamp in which everything is dumped pell-mell. It's hard to imagine what it can be like, this heaven that men dream about.

I look through the grave into heaven.

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

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.

There is no humor in heaven.

The strong argument for Heaven as a place centers in and clusters about Jesus. The man Jesus, bearing a man's form, the body He wore on earth, has a place assigned Him - a high place.

Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world.

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

To me, heaven is a real place. I don't believe it's a state of being.

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.

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

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

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

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.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

I wonder if heaven got a ghetto?

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.

The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.

Hell is gone and heaven's here,there's nothing left for you to fear.

In this world there is a paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.

Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely—flowers.

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