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Lew Wallace Author, Politician
Heaven

"Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
Heaven

"The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living."

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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
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"If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, "I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth." Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, "Yes, I deserve it.""

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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
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"Only he to whom God is present in everything and who employs his reason in the highest degree and has enjoyment in it knows anything of true peace and has a real kingdom of heaven."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven."

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell."

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
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"It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"He is not the soul of Nature, nor any part of Nature. He inhabits eternity: He dwells in a high and holy place: heaven is His throne, not his vehicle, earth is his footstool, not his vesture. One day he will dismantle both and make a new heaven and earth. He is not to be identified even with the 'divine spark' in man. He is 'God and not man."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly."

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