"Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed."
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"Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven."
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"When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper."
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"If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them."
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"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
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"Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it."
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"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
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"My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my brush as it drips continually / Upon my face, makes it a gorgeous floor."
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"Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently."
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"All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?"
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"All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most."
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"Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. J.I. Packer Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither."
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"Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal."
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"No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven."
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"LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation."
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"When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon."
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"Hell would be to have to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there."
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"Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?"
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"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven."
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"How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!"
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