"The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell."
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"For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you."
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"The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven."
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"From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious."
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"Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are."
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"The Gods have meant That I should dance And in some mystic hour I shall move to unheard rhythms Of the cosmic orchestra of heaven And you will know the language Of my wordless poems And will come to me For that is why I dance."
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"Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and moon and you planets. For out of Him and through Him, and in Him are all things..... We know, oh, so little. To Him be the praise, the honor and the glory from eternity to eternity."
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"The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love."
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"How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven."
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"It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven."
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"Just being the son of Billy Graham won't get me into heaven."
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"If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix."
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"Gratitude is heaven itself."
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"In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow."
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"To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow."
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"Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire."
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"The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye."
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"Don't tell me about heaven. What about in this life, that there is a better way, that this is not in vain, that it is not Edward Albee or Camus's absurd, the theater of the absurd, it is not Shakespeare - "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" - that life has meaning and that God is still in control, and that God can, and God will, so people of goodwill, working hard, do something about the situation? We can change."
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"He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'"
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"For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps there remains a lingering, almost innate memory of sacred shrines and temples tended by priestesses who served in the religion of the original supreme deity. 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?"
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