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"Terrorism is usually fueled by poverty, and the fanatical faith of the terrorists who truly believe that the more people they kill who do not subscribe to their faith, the greater their reward in heaven."
"I thought Bones looked like a little slice of heaven, but you're the whole cake, aren't you, sugar?"
"If you wanna get to heaven, get out of this world."
"The Bible says that it is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. It doesn't say that it is impossible!"
"It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms."
"Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!"
"And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven."
"When I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, ´there is no god´."
"The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms."
"Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution."
"The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety."
"Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own."
"The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten"
"She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there, and I said that I would not, not yet. But eventually, she said, and I promised that yes, of course, very soon. And I told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. And she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon. Twenty-two years ago."
"I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it."
"The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine."
"We are here for the purpose of redeeming and regenerating the earth on which we live, and God has placed his authority and his counsels here upon the earth for that purpose, that men may learn to do the will of God on the earth as it is done in heaven. This is the object of our existence."
"I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there."
"Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders."
"Heaven is for those who think of it."
