What is heaven?

Heaven

Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious, cosmological, mythological, or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings (such as a God, angels, the jinn, and sky deities like King or Queen of Heaven, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother, Son of Heaven, heavenly saints or venerated ancestors) originate, are enthroned or inhabit. It is commonly believed that heavenly beings can descend to earth or incarnate and that earthly beings can ascend to Heaven in the afterlife or, in exceptional cases, enter Heaven alive.

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Famous quotes containing the word heaven:

    God preaches,—a noted clergyman,—
    And the sermon is never long;
    So instead of getting to heaven at last,
    I’m going all along!
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    I begin to see that a man’s got to be in his own heaven to be happy.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    Sing
    and your hell is heaven,
    your heaven less hell.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)