"For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down."
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"Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there."
"I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other."
"Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker."
"Sincerity is the way to heaven."
"I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die"
"That's what lordship is - Christ reigning as supreme authority over our life. Making Jesus Lord of our life is not something passive. It's not a state of being, it's a state of doing. Those whom Jesus recognizes as His own are those who do the will of His Father in heaven."
"We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash."
"Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth."
"I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens."
"The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'"
"There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor."
"You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda."
"When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?"
"The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here."
"Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell."
"The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all."
"I think it rather pathetic that so many people are looking forward to heaven to prove that their doctrinal position was correct."
"We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens."
"My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell."