Touching Heaven Quotes

“Billy Graham has said many times: “Walking into a church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than walking into a garage makes you a car.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“Though they can look deceptively similar, there is a critical difference between faith in God—which can only come from placing your full trust in Him and His Word—and religion, which puts its trust in human standards and traditions and rituals.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“C. S. Lewis, the great Christian apologist, once wrote: “What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“But God’s desire is always that we look for Him and to Him with our hearts, not just our eyes.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“incident with a longtime patient of mine,”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“Not long after heaven ignited my “medical prayer ministry,” evangelists Charles and Frances Hunter asked me to come to their church and share my story with their congregation. I’d never done that before either, but I knew we have to start somewhere, and that seemed as safe a place as any. So I went, and I spoke publicly for the first time. Now I can see it as clearly as my own two hands: God will use us if we will just start. You may not understand what you’re reading in the Word, but keep studying—and then give the Lord time to reveal it to you. You may not know how to pray or share your faith, but keep practicing—the Lord will teach you. Not only that, He will empower you, for our God is able: “able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us” (Eph. 3:20) and “able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work” (2 Cor. 9:8).”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“If you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved” (vv. 8–9).”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“The kingdom of heaven is one of conquest, not defeat.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“Heaven is a place like no other, with mysteries and glories untold but waiting to captivate our every sense.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“The border to eternity runs parallel to this life and is just one step away.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“from the time we are conceived, we are on course to eternity.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“C. S. Lewis reminded us; everyone we see, meet, or know is an immortal being, destined to live out eternity in Satan’s realm or God’s.4”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“Whatever difficulty surrounds me now, this too shall pass.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“Heaven displaces our mortal dread with boldness and security as we walk this earth.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“Mother Teresa once remarked: “People ask me about death and whether I look forward to it and I answer, ‘Of course,’ because I am going home.”2”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“For every believer (not just me!), the kingdom of God enters every place with you to initiate change and victory, if you will call it down.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“Faith is trust in God. It is personal…always about believing [Jesus].”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“When God the Father sent God the Son to this realm, suddenly heaven was not just touching earth; it was here, in the person and character of Jesus!”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“You simply can’t find heaven without pursuing God.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“God surrounds every one of us with His kingdom at every turn—with messages and messengers, signs and gifts—and He has given it all to us so that we would turn our eyes and hearts toward Him.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife

“If the kingdom of darkness is present, there is chaos, agony, confusion, disruption. If the kingdom of light is present, there is peace and certainty no matter how dire the circumstances.”
― Chauncey W. Crandall, Touching Heaven: A Cardiologist's Encounters with Death and Living Proof of an Afterlife