"Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven."
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"If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road."
"Both heaven and hell are within us."
"She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop."
"It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all."
"Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven."
"Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity."
"God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect."
"What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell."
"Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven"
"I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to Heaven You'll find no policemen there."
"Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw that Peter's error would lead to the damage of the whole Church unless it were corrected. Therefore he withstood Peter to his face. The Church, Peter, the apostles, angels from heaven, are not to be heard unless they teach the genuine Word of God."
"I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him."
"People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth."
"When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil."
"Heaven lieth at the feet of mothers."
"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
"For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum."
"There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life just as it is, in all its incompleteness, yet, this is where Heaven starts.. see within yourself, if you can find it. I walked through the field in front of the house, lots of swallows flying, everywhere! Some very near me..it was magical. "We are already one, yet we know it not."
"We would say homosexuality is not the original design for sexuality. Therefore, it’s not good for human flourishing. We want people to do things that are good for human flourishing. But that’s not what sends you to heaven or Hell."