"There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven."
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"What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?"
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"Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven."
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"They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth."
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"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."
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"We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper."
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"[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting."
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"Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them."
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"You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!"
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"By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven."
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"The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it."
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"No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'."
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"To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'"
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"That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory."
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"Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire."
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"Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city"
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"February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains."
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"All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch."
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"Take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you scew everything up the next time. And that repetition of suffering - that's hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understand - there's where you'll find heaven."
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"The devil and God are components of a Siamese twin. Neither has any existence apart from the other. In denying the existence of the one, Christians have helped to kill the other. If there need to be no fear of hell, people may well ask what is the attraction of heaven? Gods and devils were born together. Gods and devils will die together."
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