Henry Van Dyke Quotes

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.

I know that Jesus is in charge; he's walking with me.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

My hope, my real hope, is that whatever you hold in your heart, whatever you truly believe, and you've put your faith in, that that's what 's waiting for you. I think that'd be wonderful. You know what I mean? I think that would be the culmination of the life of the devout, or the believer.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

Every day it seems like something happens to assure me I'm in the right place, and that doing anything else would be wrong. I feel so incredibly blessed.

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

I just know whenever I fall off His path, things get really hard. So I just stick with what God tells me to do.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

When I lost my wife I had a whole different concept of her life. She lived 21 years and people who knew her know it wasn't about the great things she did on this earth. It wasn't that she had money or had popularity, it was that she loved Jesus Christ more than anything else in this world. That was how she related to the world.

It is the power of God that keeps us rolling on. It's real good. When you know it to be real and true, that's when you have to share it with whoever will listen.

If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.

Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all kinds of ways, God has to prod us and reach out to us again and again, so that we can manage to escape from the muddle of our thoughts and activities and discover the way that leads to him. But a path exists for all of us. The Lord provides everyone with tailor-made signals.

The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us -- each one singly and altogether -- to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us.

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

If you don't enter the kingdom of heaven by God's way, you cannot enter at all.

I want to know one thing: The way to Heaven. How to land safe on that happy shore.

I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God!