"Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now."
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"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."
"A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys."
"On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn."
"Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment."
"How could God invite you to heaven, where the most exciting thing to do all day is gaze upon His glorious face, if you're not in heaven right here on earth when you're alone with Him? Do you think that after you die, suddenly you'll be in heaven and "presto!" all at once you're not going to like worldly things anymore? All of a sudden you'll love more than anything else just to hang out with God, when you couldn't stand being alone with Him even 20 minutes a day?"
"Dear mama, yo baby boys doing fine tell the homies I'm in heaven and they aint got hoods."
"There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going."
"What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?"
"Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death."
"A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage."
"Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read."
"We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played."
"Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters."
"I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'"
"There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet."
"Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions."