Quotes About Heaven

The symbolism—if symbolism it was—indicated that the witnesses were types of the Church herself. Would all those who truly followed the Lord enact with their lives what was described by these passages? Would the prayers of believers be the very instruments for bringing chastisements upon unbelieving mankind? Would the Church be apparently destroyed for three and a half years? Would she rise again as the breath of God entered her? And would she then be taken up into heaven?

And that's a problem. This excellent emphasis on the higher purpose of heaven often stifles the simple pleasures of earth.

Meritocracy is about building heaven on earth, about transforming humans into Gods. If that's not your vision, meritocracy is certainly not for you.

Earth is heaven, here and now, if you can't accept that reality." "How do I do that?" "Know who you are.

To them all, Beldame represented the fair and possible reward for distress, misfortune, and labor in this world—it was to them a heaven on earth, and resembled the other, preached-of heaven in that it was bright, remote, timeless, and empty.

Tonight, I want very much to believe that there's a heaven, that death is not a full stop, and that we will all see one another again.

and a line from Emily Dickinson that had been running through my head for months: "Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

What about the flip side of the economic ledger – the poor? Even Jesus gave up hope for them and offered only early entrance to heaven.

Death is pretty final./I'm collecting vinyl./I'm gonna DJ at the end of the world/'cause if heaven does exists/with a kickin' playlist/I don't wanna miss it at the end of the world

It's like whoever sits up ther in Heaven had this big bag of really crappy stuff, and once or twice a day she or he reaches in and sprinkles a little bit of it over the world and it makes everything go crazy, like fairy dust that's past its expiration date.

Studies show that most people rate themselves well above average when it comes to ethical behavior. In fact, a newsmagazine poll asked people whom they thought would get to heaven. Bill Clinton was a toss-up, getting 52 percent backing from respondents. Former basketball star Michael Jordan did better, at 62 percent. Mother Teresa topped the two American men with 79 percent. But she was not the highest. That honor went to "yourself," with 87 percent.

Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished?

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

Cuando la gente envejece, necesita pensar en cosas dulces y tranquilizadoras. Imaginar que algo hermoso nos espera en el cielo. En fin, que se entrenan un poquito para la muerte. Si no son ni demasiado imbéciles ni demasiado ricos.

You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

It doesn't seem real," said Linda. "None of this. It's like we're all dreaming or something. Or maybe we really are dead." "Nah," said Patsy, fluffing her bleach-blond curls. "If this was heaven there'd be more naked men.

This is what your faith means, she told Miss Broadstairs silently. You can dress it up with cherubs if you wish, but the man who painted this picture was rather more honest. He knew that it all boils down to a threat to keep people in line. That sketchy promise of Heaven if you do what you're told - and the certainty of endless torture if you don't. Take that, peasant. Now back to the fields and don't even think about improving your lot.

This is what your faith means, she told Miss Broadstairs silently. You can dress it up with cherubs if you wish, but the man who painted this picture was rather more honest. He knew that it all boils down to a threat to keep people in line. That sketchy promise of Heaven if you do what you're told – and the certainty of endless torture if you don't. Take that, peasants. Now back to the fields and don't even think about improving your lot.

Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

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