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"I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself."
"Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell."
"The thing that I always notice that dates a record is the rhythm section. With a good arranger the music can be timeless. But, rhythm can change, because heaven knows, we didn't know rock was going to come in, did we?"
"Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merelyflowers."
"I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me."
"I wonder whether they have rum and Coke in Heaven? Maybe it's too mundane a pleasure, but I hope so -- as a sundowner. Except, of course, the sun never goes down there. Oh, man, this heaven is going to take some getting used to."
"So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire -- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you."
"Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ."
"The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not."
"Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading."
"Friendship is the heaven of life."
"Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?"
"The gate of heaven is everywhere."
"Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you."
"I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven"
"The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass."
"If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot become perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine."
"If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing."
"Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness."
"Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories."
