Is there a Dog/God connection? Do all dogs actually go to heaven? Check out these religious dog quotes from our Dog Quotes section to sample what some of our brightest minds have had to say about dogs and heaven.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s. ~ Mark Twain
Dogs are miracles with paws. ~ attributed to Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there. ~ Billy Graham
I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Do dogs understand death? Do they have souls? Do they go to heaven? I have always believed so, but this [event] confirmed that all of God’s creatures , humans and animals, have a soul and that we will all be reunited in heaven. My pastor once told me, “If there are no dogs in heaven, I don’t want to go.” I agree. ~ Glenwood McNabb
Spiritual fulfillment doesn’t have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. … Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing force, or the wonder of science and the universe, or simply the beauty of the human spirit, nearly every one of feels an inner longing to feel part of something bigger than ourselves. ~ Cesar Millan
DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world’s worship. ~ Ambrose Bierce
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog. ~ Konrad Lorenz
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ~ James Thurber
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest. ~ Martin Luther
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. ~ Will Rogers
You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one… that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. ~ Mark Twain
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