Orson F. Whitney Quotes

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

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

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.

A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone

The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

I came to Christ in my early 20s.

If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.

Getting into Heaven is not something you can earn or deserve. God makes that really clear in the scriptures.

According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.

The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.