David Quotes

God put many animals here [on Earth] for pets, playthings and companions for us and our children, and we're still going to enjoy them [in Heaven].

In Heaven you're going to be the same make, but a new model!

You and I are going to live forever! We will be supernatural, miraculous supermen in superbodies that are united with our eternal spirits!

Heaven is a place where you can get all you want of whatever you like. Heaven is not the end: it's only the beginning.

Only you and I who love Jesus and have Him now before this life's death will be able to be among the special super-citizens of the Heavenly City, a special super-class of people!

The City that God is building for you and me, not even death can pass its gates! God's City of Tomorrow, His garden of the gods, will have no pain nor death nor sorrow!

We can enjoy Heaven now. We can have half of the enjoyment ahead of time by looking forward to it, thinking about it, reading about it and anticipating it.

The resurrection and the judgement will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait!

The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!

I want to declare my Citizenship in the Kingdom of God and my allegiance to His Kingdom and His City!

Isn't that ridiculous to show Peter standing at the gates of Heaven with a ring of keys? The doors are already unlocked for us, all we've got to do is walk in through the front gate!

There is a difference between being willing to go to Heaven and wanting to stay on Earth-and wanting to go to Heaven while being willing to stay on Earth.

Those who love God never meet for the last time.

What exhibit buildings God will have! The historical exhibits, the scientific exhibits, the spiritual exhibits, to be able to see the marvelous wonders of the Spirit World!

People moving in Heaven move with grace and beauty and slowly glide along with their feet hardly seeming to touch the ground!

There will be no transportation problems in Heaven-you can either glide along, float along or fly!

What are you going to be like in the Hereafter?-You're going to be like Jesus!

All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well!

Those of us who have received Jesus Christ as our Saviour and our Lover and our King already have the Garden of Eden and Paradise restored in our hearts!

This World is not our home, so we don't have to worry about whether it's good or bad. The BETTER it is, the HARDER it is to leave it. The BADDER it is, the EASIER it is to leave it!

Even Heaven would be Hell to some people because they'd be too close to God!

The Heavenly City already exists and the departed Saints are already there!

The New Heaven and New Earth are like a double Millennium, Millennium for ever!-Double your pleasure, double your fun, double your Heaven that's never done!

Have your name put in the Lamb's Book of Life in Heaven so you'll be sure you've got your reservation confirmed for one of those mansions in God's golden Space City!

We'll look enough like we do now to recognise each other, identify each other and know each other!

We'll have all the best of this and Heaven too, the best of two Worlds!-Heaven now and Heaven to come!

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised when I tell you it is yourself.

I am about to learn what it's like to live here.

...and my signature is drawn in magic markeron the lower right hand corner of the windowso when something passes in the darkit's captured for a moment inside my work.

Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.

I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.

People everywhere feel differently at different times of their lives.

I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.

We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.

Nothing is easy in writing. I don't think for anyone. But dialogue is probably what comes most naturally to me.

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we have with people, to a lesser or greater degree.

There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very politically courageous.

There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.

It's not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not.

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.