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"There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail."
"In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?"
"Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet."
"If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos."
"Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends."
"The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection."
"The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone."
"The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven."
"Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit."
"The word heaven means harmony. The word hell is from the old English hell, meaning to build a wall around, to separate; to be helled was to be shut off from. Now if there is such a thing as harmony there must be that something one can be in right relations with; for to be in right relations with anything is to be in harmony with it. Again, if there is such a thing as being helled, shut off, separated from, there must be that something from which one is held, shut off, or separated."
"In caring for others and serving heaven, There is nothing like using restraint."
"There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained."
"If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter."
"Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it."
"We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin."
"There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud."
"I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other."
"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground."
"The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it."
"I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God"
