Heaven quotes
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"Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here; Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here; Men of hereafters talk and future lives, - O love, there is no other life - but here."
"I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell"
"The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home."
"I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles"
"Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies."
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"The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?"
"Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the object enveloped in sunlight and atmosphere, with the blue dome of Heaven reflected in the shadows."
"Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you."
"If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached."
"Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell."
"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."
"Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space."
"I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become."
"The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell."
"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven."
"Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you."
"This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell."
"There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven."
"Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness."
"All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen müssen alle toleriert werden ... denn hier muss ein jeder nach seiner Fasson selig werden.]"
"Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now."
"An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive"
"The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon, and planets, glorify Him in your ineffable language! Praise Him, celestial harmonies, and all ye who can comprehend them! And thou, my soul, praise thy Creator! It is by Him and in Him that all exist."
"In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel."
"They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning."
