William Jackson Harper Quotes

There shall be no more sin, neither shall there beany more death.

My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.

In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christ's glorious body.

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

The pain that a martyr feels at the time of death will be reduced so greatly that he will only feel as if he was stung by a mosquito …. the finest dwellings in Paradise are those of the martyrs …. the angels spread their wings over the body of a martyr as a form of honor, dignity and respect

I suspect that perfect happiness is not possible for me. I suppose if I was ever selected for eternal life - the moment I was informed - that would bring me the closest.

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.

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.

All this and heaven too.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

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.

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Without holiness on earth we shall never be prepared to enjoy heaven. Heaven is a holy place. The Lord of heaven is a holy Being. The angels are holy creatures. Holiness is written on everything in heaven... How shall we ever be at home and happy in heaven if we die unholy?

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

A space in Paradise equivalent to the size of a foot would be better than the world and what is in it.

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.

Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

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