The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here.
If you could work your way to heaven, you would said look what I did, I got myself here by my good works. The only way you are going to make it is to come to that Cross.
I am convinced that these heavenly beings exist and that they provide unseen aid on our behalf.
Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!
The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.
Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that.
The most thrilling thing about heaven is that Jesus Christ will be there. I will see Him face to face. Jesus Christ will meet us at the end of life's journey.
In heaven I'll wish with all my heart that I could reclaim a thousandth part of the time I've let slip through my fingers, that I could call back those countless conversations which could have glorified my Lord-but didn't.
Remember: the Bible is our only authoritative source of information about Heaven.
The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.
If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood of Jesus.An unopened grave would never have opened heaven.
Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.
The Bible teaches that faith is the only approach that we have to God. No man has sins forgiven, no man goes to heaven, no man has assurance of peace and happiness, until he has faith in Jesus Christ.
I want people to remember me that I was faithful, faithful to the gospel, faithful to the call that God gave me. And when I get to heaven, I'm going to ask him why he called me, because I was much used to milking cows and working on the farm than I was preaching.
Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.
I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'
Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.
I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.
If there are any tears shed in heaven, it will be because we prayed so little.
Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship.
Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross.
Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.
I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'