“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
Anatole France, French Poet, Journalist and Writer
“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
Mark Twain, American Author
“I think God will have prepared everything for our perfect happiness. If it takes my dog being there [in Heaven], I believe he’ll be there.”
Billy Graham, American Christian Evangelist
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
Will Rogers, American Humorist and Actor
“Something better remains after death for these poor creatures [pets, animals]…that these, likewise, shall one day be delivered from this bondage of corruption, and shall then receive an ample amends for all their present sufferings.”
John Wesley, British Theologian
“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Author [Treasure Island]
“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
“It seems to me possible that certain animals may have an immortality… and if it is agreeable to the goodness of God that they should live again, their immortality would also be related to man—not, his time to individual masters, but to humanity.”
C. S. Lewis, British Author and Theologian [Chronicles of Narnia]
“Heaven will not ever Heaven be, unless my cats are there to welcome me.”
Author unknown
“If there is a heaven, it’s certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.”
Pam Brown, Australian Author and Poet
“And as I knelt beside the brook
To drink eternal life, I took
A glance across the golden grass,
And as my dog, old Blackie, fast
As she could come. She leaped the stream—
Almost—and what a happy gleam
Was in her eye. I knelt to drink,
And knew that I was on the brink
Of endless joy. And everywhere
I turned I saw wonder there.”
John Piper, American Theologian and Pastor
“If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people.”
James Thurber, Author [The Secret Life of Walter Mitty]
“If God brings our pets back to life, it wouldn’t surprise me. It would be just like Him. It would be totally in keeping with His generous character… Exorbitant. Excessive. Extravagant in grace after grace. Of all the dazzling discoveries and ecstatic pleasures heaven will hold for us, the potential of seeing Scrappy would be pure whimsy—utterly, joyfully, surprisingly superfluous… Heaven is going to be a place that will refract and reflect in as many ways as possible the goodness and joy of our great God, who delights in lavishing love on His children.”
Joni Eareckson Tada, Christian Author, Speaker, and Founder of Joni and Friends
“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.”
Mark Twain, American Author
“They [God’s creatures] will be restored, not only to that measure of understanding which they had in paradise, but to a degree of it as much higher than that… whatever affections they had in the garden of God, will be restored with vast increase; being exalted and refined in a manner which we ourselves are not now able to comprehend.”
John Wesley, British Theologian
Leave a reply