J. C. Ryle Quotes

I'm ensuring my place 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.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

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

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven.

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

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

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life.

We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

To get to heaven, you have to work very hard. I want to go to heaven, so I will try to pray more.

You must come to Jesus if you want to go to Heaven. He will change your nature; He will change all evil habits.

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.