"Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved."
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"Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there."
"Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven."
"What if you died, and you found out that when you died, we all went to the same place. No Heaven, no Hell, doesn't matter what you did in life - you all go to the same place, regardless. I know a lot of nice people who will be really pissed off. You'll see Gandhi arguing with the doorman."
"Did you know that Dog Heaven and Cat Hell were the same place?"
"Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice."
"By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration."
"No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of heaven, no one has heard about his realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existenceDeath is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death."
"Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still."
"The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition."
"I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'"
"Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask."
"The Bible teaches that faith is the only approach that we have to God. No man has sins forgiven, no man goes to heaven, no man has assurance of peace and happiness, until he has faith in Jesus Christ."
"Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart."
"We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself."
"Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London."
"Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only."
"Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?"
"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."
"God owns heaven but He craves the earth."