Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
To get to heaven, you have to work very hard. I want to go to heaven, so I will try to pray more.
I was so engrossed in my sport, I wasn't thinking about the future from God's standpoint. I was thinking about just my sporting future.
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do.
If they aren't going to advance God's kingdom, I don't care to help them advance their kingdom.
God wants us to practice on Earth what we're going to do forever in eternity.
We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?
Balancing the budget is like going to Heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.
This was a variation of the quotation of Canadian Minister of Finance, Jean Chretien, a decade earlier.