Quotes About Heaven

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

En la horca negra bailan, amable manco, bailan los paladines, los descarnados danzarines del diablo; danzan que danzan sin fin los esqueletos de Saladín. ¡Monseñor Belzebú tira de la corbata de sus títeres negros, que al cielo gesticulan, y al darles en la frente un buen zapatillazo les obliga a bailar ritmos de Villancico!

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and squabbles and rascalities on earth.

This writer was once present at a service where a hymn was sung, the chorus of which ran, "Oh, how I love Jesus." But I could not conscientiously join in singing it. None in heaven are guilty of lauding themselves or magnifying their graces, nor should any Christians do so here upon earth.

Heaven would at once cease to be heaven if the ears of the saints still heard the blasphemous and filthy language of the reprobate.

And what is faith but the acceptance of heaven's gifts, or the trusting in the record wherein those gifts are promised.

Paradise Lost is sometimes Heaven found.

Det føltes som om de var på vei til himmelen. Og det var de jo også, forutsatt at noen i selskapet fikk slippe inn på nevnte sted etter døden.

Si me dieran la inmortalidad absoluta a cambio de un día de Purgatorio, rechazaría el trato. Qué pereza, luego, todo el tiempo tocando el arpa en una nube, vestido con un ridículo camisón blanco... Lo mejor es dejar de existir.

Vinieron la Verdad y la Justicia a la tierra; la una no halló comodidad por desnuda, ni la otra por rigurosa. Anduvieron mucho tiempo así, hasta que la Verdad, depuro necesitada, asentó con un mudo. La Justicia, desacomodada, anduvo por la tierra rogando a todos, y viendo que no hacían caso de ella y que le usurpaban su nombre para honrar tiranías, determinó volverse huyendo al Cielo.

I had closed my eyes and seen a place I hadn't known existed. There was no anger, no loneliness, no jagged icy fear gnawing at the wires of my body. For that one moment, the noise inside my head had turned still and silent. If hell was real and true and all around us, then heaven was too.

En el Paraíso hay amigos, música, algunos libros; lo único malo de irse al Cielo es que allí el cielo no se ve.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

Servitude to law is the hatred of Heaven.58 Only self-love is the eternal all-pleasing, which is achieved by meditation on this radiant self which is mystic joyousness.

Foul feeders! Slipped, are ye, on your own excrement? Parasites! Having made the world lousy, imagine ye are of significance to Heaven? Desiring to learn-think ye to escape hurt in the rape of your ignorance? For of what I put in, far more than innocence shall come out!

Unworthy of a soul-your metamorphosis is laborious of morbid rebirth to give habitance to the shabby sentiments, the ugly familiarities, the calligraphic pandemonium-a world of abundance acquired of greed. Thus are ye outcasts! Ye habitate dung-heaps; your glorious palaces are hospitals set amid cemeteries. [...] Can you realize of Heaven when it exists WITHOUT?

We qualify for heaven when we enter God's presence. Some people attain that state in this life; while still living on the earth they see God. Others fail to do so even after death.

Promising paradise or threatening hell-fire is, we assumed, generally admitted to be unproductive. It is based upon a fundamental fraud which, when discovered, turns the individual against society and nourishes the very thing it tries to stamp out. What Jesus offered in return of loving one's enemies was heaven on earth, better known as peace of mind.

It is a poor centre of a man's actions, himself. It is right earth. For that only stands fast upon his own centre; whereas all things, that have affinity with the heavens, move upon the centre of another, which they benefit.

When my father died of cancer in 1991, he left me with the assurance that he was headed to a better place. He used to always tell me that I was getting the raw end of the deal because I had to stick around here.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

James Brown went to the pearly gates and met St. Peter who took him to a room where Jerry Garcia was playing and Jimi Hendricks and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. James Brown says, "I was worried maybe I was going to hell, but I guess not." Jerry Garcia says "You think this is heaven?" Just then Lawrence Welk walked in and says "All right, one more time. 'The Anniversary Waltz.' And a one and a two and a one, two, three…

Too many of my fellow Christians voted for selfishness and for degradation of the beautiful world God created. I guess they figured that by the time the planet was a smoky wasteland, they'd be nice and comfy in heaven, so wotthehell.