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I don't have to worry about Madame Ouche! she'll still be robbing me blind when she's dead!...having made her last confession and received extreme unction...all the cataclysms will pass over her without harming a single gray hair on her head! it's a paradise here for scum like her, on earth as there is in heaven...they don't really die, the sluts, the hussies, the really awful ones, they just go from one paradise to another, with their money, servants, cars...just buy their cute little ticket and off they go! final absolution and see you later! they shit in your hands!...they're born to slip out of both hells - the one here and the one in the next world...all they do is fuck and whine...loads of cash! never broke!...cheers! here's to you! no regrets! you realize too late...
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Normance
The Albion was a spacious pub, built in the days when a public house with any pretensions to gentility had to have fourteen foot ceilings, brass taps and a polished wooden bar you skate down. ... Bert, in his reflective moments, considered that if heaven didn't have a well-appointed pub where a man could sit down over a beer for a yarn with the other angels, then he didn't want to go there.
— Kerry Greenwood, Raisins and Almonds
You cannot always find someone to make you feel special; if you did, make her a heaven so she could stay.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Everyone has their heaven.
— Adam Baker, Outpost
Then, when I thought it couldn’t get any better, I see it. And I knew, only then, that I’m truly in Heaven.
— Mandi Lynn, Essence
It is often thought that spirits in the after-world do not breathe as we might do - and that in being dead, one does not require inhaling and exhaling anything.Well, they do exchange ethers, and the body of a soul does in fact breathe, and talk and sing - though not with oxygen, but a rarefied vitality. And just as a newborn, the very first impulse that comes when one crosses over to the other side, past the veils of death, is to inhale deeply - and then relax.
— Gabriel Brunsdon, Azlander: Second Nature
You see, I cannot share my space with them. Not only am I severely claustrophobic but I abhor the mass. In general, I do not like people very much. Those I cannot sand are the average ones that eat with their hands out of plastic plates and travel in buses to work. I am horrified of them. "Mr. Wesley
— Nina -, Johnny Kiddow
There are a lot of people on this planet and, as a Christian, I like to believe that they all have to go somewhere. Let’s say that a half or three thirds will go to hell. But, what about the rest? "Mr. Wesley
— Nina -, Johnny Kiddow
If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No matter how ugly you are
—  there is always someone who sees his heaven in your eyes.
Heaven's the place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you.
— Unknown Author 516
Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the other attributes of Heaven you could have for a song.
— Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
No ancient Jew was ever promised, or expected, a heavenly life. That was a wild and outrageous teaching of Jesus. Holy text never offers a heavenly hope--before Jesus. Think about it: No matter how faithful Adam would have been, he could never graduate to heaven. Going to heaven was a 'Jesus teaching.' It simply does not exist in Torah.pg xxvii
— Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs The Book for Daughters
God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy
— Stephen King, Joyland
Nothing is more fun than fucking and drinking, I don’t know what is your God offering in heaven.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Well, Hell was worse, of course, by definition. But Crowley remembered what Heaven was like, and it had quite a few things in common with Hell. You couldn’t get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive
— D.R. Silva
If this is Heaven, I am in big trouble.
— J.C. Morrows, Taken
...And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy," assured Anne.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
Worship must occupy us full-time for a lifetime because our final destination is Heaven—it’s no place for part-time lovers!
— Gangai Victor, The Worship Kenbook
Do good and be a good person because that’s just what the Lord expects. There just ain’t nothing special about being and doing good. It’s what the Lord expects…
— Andrew Galasetti, These Colors Don't Run
If a man could make the earth heaven to get you, could also make it hell for you if he couldn't get you.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Ramadi’s sky was generously filled with stars. Celestial ornaments set against a banner of a deep blue velvet sky. It was a place where hell, death, and heaven were so clear and the closest I’ve felt to all three in my life.
— M.B. Dallocchio, Quixote in Ramadi: An Indigenous Account of Imperialism
Jean Paul Sartre says that ‘Hell is other people!’ In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: ‘Heaven is other people too!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When a man falls in love, he sees the beloved in an idealized vision which to the rest of the world seems unjustified by the facts of the woman's character and appearance. The lover feels towards his beloved, thus idealized, a rapture of devotion, which seems to blend humility with exultation, self-giving with grateful receiving, in a joyful interchange of laughter and courtesy. What is the real significance of this vision and the mutual relationship which can emerge from it? [Charles] Williams tells us that the lover sees his beloved as all men would see one another, and all things, had not man fallen from his state of original innocence. He sees his beloved as all men ought to see their fellow-men 'in God'. The relationship between lover and beloved which emerges is (at its best) the relationship of joyful giving and receiving which ought to join all men together. Already such relationships exist among the perfected in Heaven. And the archetype of such perfected relationships is the coherence of the Three Persons of the Trinity.
— Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind: How Should a Christian Think?
The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed.
— Bill Guggenheim, Judy Guggenheim, Hello From Heaven!: A New Field of Research--After-Death Communication--Confirms That Life and Love Are Eternal
Humans get used to even if they are in the hell.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school.
— Andy Paula
There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I know after all the awful places you've had to go, it's hard to imagine how good heaven can be, but I've seen it, and no words can describe it...It's worth it all. We've both lost a parent, we've been beaten and bruised, and we've done through hell together. I even died. And I can tell you...giving up everything to serve God is worth it all.
— Bryan Davis, Tears of a Dragon
This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God’s, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.
— Emanuel Swedenborg, Secrets of Heaven (Swedenborg, Emanuel, Works.)
Golden Rule Living is the great simplifier. It places us in another soul’s shoes, taking what can appear to be a com- plex decision that involves another and streamlining it to a one-step process of deciding, “If I wouldn’t like this done to me, then I shall not do it to another.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Pretty, was she?""Pretty?" he echoed. "Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings and not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle
The river was beautiful and wise. There were the two of them being happy in a new way. For here, there was no man, no woman, no master, no yellow, no black, no white. We, we who were, we are the same no longer.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
How you expect the heaven, when you make someone else’s life hell.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
Union with God is the only heaven there is, and it begins here on earth.
— Macrina Wiederkehr, A Tree Full of Angels
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
All bowmen are caught between heaven and earth, born to discovery, choosing to love and raise their eyes high to a future that is apparent only through the strength of their hope.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
You are the apple of Love’s eye.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
It is through love that the door to Heaven is opened on earth.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Small as a pea. Wider than the sea. This is where you and I came to be.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
What are those glorious dots? Those, dear one, are forget-me-nots!
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
Some fool aims to go to heaven
—  some clever knows that there isn’t any
If there is heaven then there must be hell too, don't think that The God is merciful, he didn't create hell for himself.
— John Art
They call each other `E.’ Elvis pickswildflowers near the river and bringsthem to Emily. She explains half-rhymes to him.In heaven Emily wears her hair long, sportsLevis and western blouses with rhinestones.Elvis is lean again, wears baggy trousersand T-shirts, a letterman’s jacket from Tupelo High.They take long walks and often hold hands.She prefers they remain just friends. Forever.Emily’s poems now contain naugahyde, Cadillacs,Electricity, jets, TV, Little Richard and RichardNixon. The rock-a-billy rhythm makes her smile.Elvis likes himself with style. This afternoonhe will play guitar and sing “I Taste A LiquorNever Brewed” to the tune of “Love Me Tender.”Emily will clap and harmonize. Alonein their cabins later, they’ll listen to the riverand nap. They will not think of Amherstor Las Vegas. They know why God made themroommates. It’s because Americawas their hometown. It’s becauseGod is a thing withoutfeathers. It’s becauseGod wears blue suede shoes.
— Hans Ostrom
We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
We are more of the earth,Farther from heaven these days.
— Henry David Thoreau
Kylie looked up towards the sky. "Sometimes I just wish Heaven wasn't so far away.
— C.C. Hunter, Taken at Dusk
Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life. In this life there are many forms of hell that people walk through, sometimes for a day, sometimes for years, sometimes it doesn't end. The kind of hell that doesn't burn your skin; but burns your soul. The kind of hell that people can't see; but the flames lap at your spirit. Heaven is a place on earth, too! It's where you feel freedom, where you're not afraid. No more chains. And you hear your soul laughing.
— C. JoyBell C.
Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.
— Billy Graham
Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.
— Francis de Sales
It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.
— Johann David Wyss, The Swiss Family Robinson
That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio
Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.
— Ron Rash, The Cove
I feared the defining point of this Hell was its unrelenting uniformity, its lack of variation from type. If there was a heaven at the end of this, it must be filled with great variety, perhaps a multiplicity of intelligent species spread across universes. Yes, heaven would be as full of difference as Hell was of sameness.
— Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
The HurricaneThe tree lay downon the garage roof and stretched, You have your heaven, it said, go to it.
— William Carlos Williams, The Collected Poems, Vol. 2: 1939-1962
And now it is time for my story to end, because we have finally reached the beginning.
— Caroline Flohr
It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
— Wernher von Braun
The means to laying up treasure in heaven is by giving to the poor.
— David Servant, Forever Rich
Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
— William Golding, Darkness Visible
Death doesn't happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you want more than anything is to go home, to be safe, to know you're okay. But my life was over.
— Caroline Flohr
If heaven is within you, everywhere you go you will find heaven!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
The Judgement is not a question, it's a sure answer, as to a clump of dough, that will yeast and rise, or go in the oven and burn to crust.
— Anthony Liccione
When we look from the bottom of a well, sky shines more beautifully than from the surface! Heaven is a Double-Heaven in the Hell!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Love is like an unfathomable idea. An idea that is slightly above euphoria, yet a fingers width from heaven.
— Shannan Jacoby
I would I were in the kingdom of heaven if it be as you and Mr. Graham take it for!" said Clementina."You must be in it, my lady, or you couldn't wish it to be such as it is.""Can one be in it and yet seem to himself to be out of it. Malcolm?""So many are out of it that seem to be in it, my lady, that one might well imagine it the other way around with some.
— George MacDonald, The Marquis' Secret
My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience continues beyond the grave. More important, it continues under the gaze of a God who loves and cares about each one of us and about where the Universe itself and all the beings withing it are ultimately goind.
— Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. If these little creatures knew how great a change awaited them, no doubt they would regret it; but would not all such sorrow be misplaced?
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
She wasn’t just a faithful friend, she was the closest thing to heaven I allowed myself to know. Through her I received joy in my heart and began to love others.
— Jennifer Skiff, The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend
Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.
— Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Do you think heaven's like that?Could be worse, said Serge. You know all those pushy people who keep telling us we're not going to heaven? It could be full of them instead.
— Tim Dorsey, Electric Barracuda
There is perfect love in Heaven!
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
In time, all will be well - for all of us.""You sound as if you truly believe that it will.""Why shouldn't I? For Arman has given us the end of the story, has he not? Shamayim will be a wonderful home, even if this one remains dark.
— Jill Williamson, From Darkness Won
Mr. Pritchard! What are you doing? Is that O-soto-gari? No! It is not! It is a yak mating with a tractor! That is really very very not very good! My grandfather is weeping in Heaven, or he would if there were such a place, which there is not because religion is a mystification contrived by monarchists! Again! Again, and this time do it properly!
— Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker
Heaven and hell could wait.He had paradise right there in his arms.
— Cynthia Eden, Angel of Darkness
Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It's hard work believing that it's there.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,--it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,--feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy!
— Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona
Our dreams are the forgotten path to Heaven.
— Harold Klemp, The Art of Spiritual Dreaming: How Dreams Can Make You Find More Love and Happiness
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believe in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Yeah, but what does that even mean... heaven? Because see, I need to be able to put him somewhere, Zo. In my head, I mean. I need to be able to close my eyes and picture him and know he's okay. And just saying the word heaven doesn't help that much. Because like what is heaven, exactly? And where is it? And what do you do there?
— Barbara Park, Mick Harte Was Here
You are equipped to change atmospheres. The first one is your own. Rise up. Speak to your mountains and they will fall. Partner with Heaven and see it come to your rescue.
— Jenelle Dancel, Favor Walks With Us
It is more magnificent than what I thought heaven might be, and yet it is all of its wonder, as well.”... "Iris, we are shut off from it in this life because if any knew its magnificence, life itself would end, for all who are living would seek death. But as the egg must be in the nest for the bird to fly from it, so the living must live and die when nature intends so that the shell may be broken at the point when the living have wings to fly. It is as if in life we are blind, and in death we see. In life we think in error, but in death we know and love and understand.
— Douglas Clegg, Isis
If you do not enter inside, what use the door to heaven can have?
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Ecclesiastes would be quite unbearable were it not for Heavens eternity and its citizens". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.
— Elizabeth of the Trinity
Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.
— Sidney Sheldon, Memories of Midnight
Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.
— Mitch Albom, For One More Day
The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.
— Richard Paul Evans, Lost December
Maybe heaven was innocence, limbo was ignorance, and hell was fiery illumination.
— Kimberly Sabatini, Touching the Surface
The are some things beyond human comprehension. i know that there's a Heaven and a Hell, and I've seen what can come out of both. For now that's all I need to know - Xavier Woods
— Alexandra Adornetto, Halo
Have you ever had somebody grip you with a passion you never thought existed outside the fucking movies? As though they found you the most precious thing in the world? I felt it then, and couldn't believe that somebody would actually want me that much. I don't believe in Heaven as a place, but I sometimes think that if a person could write down how I felt at just that moment - if they could describe it perfectly - then that sentence would be something like Heaven to me. And as a final resting place, I'd be happy to have my name shrunk down and rested, invisibly, on the collar of the full stop at the end.
— Steve Mosby, The Third Person
Christmas, when observed with the right spirit, still has the power to call miracles from Heaven to Earth.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
I gaze up at the ceiling. Through it. Past Kim and Chip's room on the second floor into the sky, space, heaven, hell. Who says hell is down? It could be up. It could be next door to heaven. Hell could be a subset of heaven, like a ghetto in the middle of a glass city.
— Julie Anne Peters, By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Don't talk about heaven if you've never been to Bali.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Infernal world, and thou profoundest HellReceive thy new Possessor: One who bringsA mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.The mind is its own place, and in it selfCan make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who have become as men and men who have become as women. Writers of books with long titles. Only those knights who have failed to touch the Grail. Industrious women. You, and I, and a boy named Oleg, and a girl with blue hair.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest
Oh, they don't allow the Bible in Heaven, Miss Mary...It contains far too much sex and violence.
— Bryan Talbot, Cherubs!
Our poor human heart is flawed: it is like a cake without the frosting: the first two acts of the theatre without the climax. Even its design is marred for a small piece is missing out of the side. That is why it remains so unsatisfied: it wants life and it gets death: it wants Truth and it has to settle for an education; it craves love and gets only intermittent euphoria’s with satieties. Samples, reflections and fractions are only tastes, not mouthfuls. A divine trick has been played on the human heart as if a violin teacher gave his pupil an instrument with one string missing. God kept a part of man's heart in Heaven, so that discontent would drive him back again to Him Who is Eternal Life, All-Knowing Truth and the Abiding Ecstasy of Love.
— Fulton J. Sheen
His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.
— William Golding, The Spire
And what percentage of people take up the option to die off?’ She looked at me, her glance telling me to be calm. ‘Oh, a hundred per cent, of course. Over many thousands of years, calculated by old time, of course. But yes, everyone takes the option, sooner or later.’‘So it’s just like the first time round? You always die in the end?’‘Yes, except don’t forget the quality of life here is much better. People die when they decide they’ve had enough, not before. The second time round it’s altogether more satisfying because it’s willed.’ She paused, then added, ‘As I say, we cater for what people want.’I hadn’t been blaming her. I’m not that sort. I just wanted to find out how the system worked. ‘So … even people, religious people, who come here to worship God throughout eternity … they end up throwing in the towel after a few years, hundred years, thousand years?’‘Certainly. As I said, there are still a few Old Heaveners around, but their numbers are diminishing all the time.
— Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½  Chapters
When I came out into the outside room again, I saw her shoe still lying there, where it had come off in the course of our brief wrestle. It looked so pathetic there by itself without an owner, it looked so lonely, it looked so empty. Something made me pick it up arid take it in to her. Like when someone's going away, you help them on with their coat, or their jackboots, or whatever it is they need for going away.I didn't try to put it back on her, I just set it down there beside her close at hand. You're going to need this, I said to her in my mind. You're starting on a long walk. You're going to keep walking from now on, looking for your home.I stopped and wondered for a minute if that was what happened to all of us when we crossed over. Just keep walking, keep on walking, with no ahead and no in-back-of; tramps, vagrants in eternity. With our last hope and horizon - death - already taken away.In the Middle Ages they had lurid colors, a bright red hell, an azure heaven shot with gold stars. They knew where they were, at least. They could tell the difference. We, in the Twentieth, we just have the long walk, the long walk through the wispy backward-stringing mists of eternity, from nowhere to nowhere, never getting there, until you're so tired you almost wish you were alive again. ("Life Is Weird Sometimes" - first chapter of unpublished novel THE LOSER)
— Cornell Woolrich
Hell's only the flip side of Paradise. Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the two.
— Sara Craven, Witching Hour
A little girl and her father were walking along in the evening. She was fascinated by the stars, and kept looking up at them, but made no comment until her father asked what she was thinking. She replied, "If the bottom side of heaven is so beautiful, how wonderful the other side must be
— Francis Gay
If only they could stay young & beautifull like most of them desire, then we would probably stay young too
— zundap
In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.
— Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro
Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?
— A.W. Tozer, The Attributes of God: A Journey Into the Father's Heart
God knew our lives would be really bad sometimes. Like maybe we'd be turned into a monster and then our best friend would get killed. So he made up this story about hell, so we could always say, 'Well it could be worse. It could be hell.' And then we'd keep going.
— Michael  Grant, Fear
If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.
— Anthony Liccione
The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.
— John Burroughs
You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
We are all blessed ones. Heaven is no longer in the clouds. It is right here, all around us, everywhere; we must only open our eyes to see it.
— Kim Chestney, The Psychic Workshop: A Complete Program for Fulfilling Your Spiritual Potential
The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however good that pleasure may be in itself, is always taken away from us. The things for which men strive hardly ever turn out to be as satisfying as they expected, and in the rare cases in which they do, sooner or later they are snatched away.... For the Christians, all those partial, broken and fleeting perfections which he glimpses in the world around him, which wither in his grasp and he snatches away from him even while the wither, are found again, perfect, complete and lasting in the absolute beauty of God.
— Randy Alcorn, Heaven
When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.
— Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can't, sort of like having a superpower that's not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It's a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect.
— Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Heaven's net is wide, but its mesh is fine
— Lao Tzu
And if they do, I hope heaven is a road trip. I hope it’syou and me and Renny and Ted with nothing but time on our hands. I hope it’s, I don’t know, crossing an immeasurable distance with your closest friends.
— Madeleine Roux, Allison Hewitt Is Trapped
For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.
— Randy Alcorn, Heaven
When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into you eternity and immortality.
— A.W. Tozer, The Attributes of God: Deeper into the Father's Heart
A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven into us, Col. 2: 2, 3.
— John Flavel, The Fountain of Life Opened, Or, a Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory Wherein the Impetration of Our Redemption by Jesus Christ
I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth.
— Virchand Gandhi
If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without end. You'll inhabit the New Earth! You'll live with the God you cherish and the people you love as an undying person on an undying Earth.
— Randy Alcorn, Heaven
Life is whatever you make it, a heaven or hell on earth.
— Steven Redhead, Keys to The Laws of Creation
As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.
— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of witness, every resistance of temptation, every motion of repentance, every gesture of concern, every routine engagement, every motion of worship, every struggle towards obedience, every mumbled prayer, everything, literally, which flows out of our faith-relationship with the Ever-Living One, will find its place in the ever-living heavenly order which will dawn at his coming.
— Randy Alcorn, Heaven
Life is exactly what you make it
—  it can be a heaven or hell
You ask me, I'd guess heaven and hell look pretty much the same," I replied. "Only in hell, everything is just a little out of reach.
— Chris  Holm, Dead Harvest
Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be partakers of our honey talk.(Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54)
— Christopher Marlowe
Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard, however, since this endearing quality frequently masquerades as wit.
— Mike Corbett
Lord Foulgrin: "You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole." (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)
— Randy Alcorn, Lord Foulgrin's Letters
No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny.
— Mike Corbett, Laughter of the Damned
If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.
— J.A. Konrath
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.
— J. Sidlow Baxter
Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be
— Anthony Robbins
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
— Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
Life is full of surprises, so you may as well get used to it.
— Susan Meddaugh, Cinderella's Rat
Do not allow any discouragement in your soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't tell me how big my problem is, tell the problem how Big I am
— EverSkeptic
Can you not see that we still might win? We lost a battle, not a war.
— Karen Essex, Pharaoh
There is always a mountain ahead, that must be conquered.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We shall face many troubles. But the Lord shall deliver us from each one of them.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Paradise is not a place, it’s a state of mind.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
I've heard, "We live in a world of diminishing returns, when what we give we'll never get back." I say, "What we give returns to us in like-kind 400 times.
— Kat Kaelin, Relationship: How to Communicate More Effectively and Manage Your Anger: BONUS: 7 Powerful Key Tips, Save, Heal and Build a Strong Relationship
Getting older is inevitable--being old is a choice.
— Cheryl L. Ilov, Forever Fit and Flexible: Feeling Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond
Have courage to let go of the matter which doesn't matter!
— Riya Pallavi Biren
You have an inbuilt goodness. Why should you allow some poisonous elements to destroy that goodness? Protect your goodness by any means. Stay away from the toxic people.
— Anjan Dey
I don't want to drain what little energy I have on hate, on envy, on blame. I'll need every last drop to better myself, so I can make what little impact I can in this world.
— Katelyne Parker, Hosanna
Everything should be end with happiness.
— ankit maharishi
Yesterday is there, today is here, live in the now, allowing life to show you the light
— Alicia O'Brien
Problems forges you to be more refined person.
— Raajesh Pillai
All Pieces of puzzle set on right place, but it'll take time & dedication !!
— Akash Patel
What you think of me does not change who I am.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can have your wish in the sacred time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you go through the hot furnace of hardships, you will be refined like gold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every circumstance is an opportunity to re-define your confident level.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Through light, together, let us breed positivity as a lifestyle.
— Jessica Edouard
Adversity is inevitable. Staying positive is optional.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Nothing will change if you worry. Rather it may aggravate negative emotions within you. Don't waste your time worrying.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Challenges are inevitable. Happiness is optional.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Problems are inevitable. Staying in control of your emotions is optional.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
We may not be able to change the reality but we can change how our minds see and store it.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Are you a fortune-teller? A clairvoyant? If not, why anticipate the worst for yourself? We predict events will turn out in a negative way because our self-beliefs are limiting.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Are you a clairvoyant? A fortune-teller? If not, why anticipate the worst for yourself? Past does not equal the future, so why not think big and positive?
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Good deeds move you towards the right place, at the right time, and with the right people. When you succeed in good things, ultimately you will experience enlightenment/ascension.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
We can choose the type of thoughts we repeat in our mind. Nothing can force us to pick any memory, circumstance or relationship without our permission.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
If we let all the negative roadblocks influence us then it's only a matter of time before we end up detoured, lost, or possibly stranded on the side of the highway. Our positive attitude keeps our battery powered and our gas tank full, so that we can make it in one piece to our destination.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.
— JT Sanz
Life is all about experiencing the good and the bad part of life. Good part gives you good memories and bad part teaches you good lessons in your life.
— Sujish Kandampully
If I were to complain about complainers. Am I a culprit comparable conveyor? Let go of the anger. It’s crimping my colossal contentment.
— JT Sanz
A good attitude, a positive perspective, a smiling face, a strong laugh are all highly contagious. Why not start spreading them?
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
It's okay to dream, but remember to plan when you wake up.
— G.C. Julien
Positive mindset, positive lifestyle.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
A positive attitude leads to a positive action, which then yields a positive result. That’s how the cycle always goes. Nothing seems to be too difficult for people blessed with positive mindsets.
— Kevin J.  Donaldson
If you're too busy being angry at the world, don't be surprised when the world returns serve.
— Tony Curl
Life is uncertain. We can never predict when hard times shall strike.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Everyone has a good heart. It's our mind which gets polluted by so much negativity from the external world.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
The help we give to others creates the ripple of good feeling we give to ourselves.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
Walk away from every vicious act. Never look back.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
... what kind of life do we live if we let fear break us down? The truth is there will be tough times, we've certainly been through them before; but good things happen everyday. Great things. We just have to open our eyes and see them.
— Christene Houston, A Heart So Broken
Believe in the power of dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don't waste your time complaining, use your energy to create a solution. Even a 10% resolution is progress.
— Benjamin Lotter
I'll definitely never allow someone to spoil my positivity for their negativity.
— amrahsaeed
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
— Kevyn Aucoin
Winners Evaluate Themselves In A Positive Manner And Look For Their Strengths As They Work To Overcome Weaknesses.
— Zig Ziglar, Great Quotes from Zig Ziglar: 250 Inspiring Quotes from the Master Motivator and Friends
Do you know what sentence of his (Wordsworth) I admire the most? It is "The bright day is done, and we are for the dark." I wish I'd known those words on the day I watched those German troops land, plane-load after plane-load of them--and come off ships down in the harbor! All I could think of was damn them, damn them, over and over. If I could have thought the words “the bright day is done and we are for the dark,” I’d have been consoled somehow and ready to go out and contend with circumstance—instead of my heart sinking to my shoes.
— Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Nay, you don't throw away those misplaced beads.. you find them, pick them up and make a new necklace.. probably not as beautiful as you imagined..but wearable nevertheless..
— Sanhita Baruah
If You Are Feeling Blue, Try To Paint The Sky With It. When Its Done, Look At It And Then Definitely The Golden Sun Will Come Out From You To Brighten Up Your Entire Day....
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
Possible is within you bring it out to attain your desired destiny
— Vignesh S.V., Adventures of Dollar Right
I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.
— Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
If Its Cold Outside Then Let The World To See The Warmth of Your SMILE....
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
It takes time, patience, productivity and persistence to 'pop the oil'; just keep digging. Worthy investments take time to show positive returns.
— T.F. Hodge
Maintain an attitude of anticipating success!
— Tae Yun Kim, The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within
Realize that "I Can't" usually means "I won't"!
— Tae Yun Kim, The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within
Maintain a forgiving attitude!
— Tae Yun Kim, The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within
So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords.
— Patricia Briggs, Blood Bound
When her blue-black eyes lifted to his, everything disappeared. Their bodies dematerialized. The room they were in ceased to exist. Time became nothing. And in the void, in the wormhold, Wrath's chest opened up sure as if he'd been shot, a piercing pain licking over his nerve endings. He knew then that there are many ways for a heart to break. Sometimes it's from the crowding of life, the compression of responsibility and birthright and burden that just squeezed you until you couldn't breathe anymore. Even though your lungs were working just fine. And sometimes it's from the casual cruelty of a fate that took you far from where you had thought you would end up.And sometimes it's age in the face of youth. Or sickness in the face of health. But sometimes it's just because you're looking into the eyes of your lover, and your gratitude for having them in your life overflows...because you showed them what was on the inside and they didn't run scared or turn away: they accepted you and loved you and held you in the midst of your passion or your fear...or your combination of both. Wrath closed his eyes and focused on the soft pulls at his wrist. God, they were just like the beat of his heart. Which made sense.Because she was the center of his chest. And the center of his world.
— J.R. Ward, The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide
Hey, would you look at that shit?"I turned on my heel. The patrons who’d fled at the first hint of trouble had come back and were enjoying the spectacle."Clear out!" I barked.They paid me no mind. Asshole innocent bystanders.
— Ilona Andrews, Magic Burns
Are you a prude?' He seemed genuinely curious.'No!' But after a second, I said, 'But may be compared to you, yes! I like my privacy. I get to decide who sees me naked. Do you get my point?''Yes. Objectively speaking, you have beautiful points.'I thought the top of my head would pop off...(Sookie Stackhouse & Claude, Dead in the Family)
— Charlaine Harris, Dead in the Family
This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.''Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.
— Charlaine Harris, Dead in the Family
We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.
— Rebecca Lim, Muse
Sometimes, there aren't any good choices. Sometimes, making the right one is hard... It's funny, but when you think about it, we're all broken. That's what life does. It knocks you down and breaks you and you either get back up again, or you don't. You either do things on your terms, or you don't. You let the bad things win, or you don't.""You either let it break you, or you don't.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Every Other Day
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.
— William James
Honey, that man would do anything to keep you. Lie, steal, cheat, kill, clean up after himself, and do laundry.
— Alisa Sheckley, Moonburn
We were arrogant and naive, thinking we knew what we felt then was love. Love can be a cheap emotion, lightly given, thought it didn´t seem so to me at the time. Looking back, I know we were only filling in the holes in our soles, the way the tide rushes sand to fill in the crevices of a rocky shore. We-or maybe it was just I-bandaged our needswith what we declared was love. But, eventually, the tide draws out what it has swept in.
— Alma Katsu, The Taker
They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life
— Veronica Rossi
I didn't know what to think about first: me seeing Claude naked, Claude seeing me naked, or the whole fact that we were related and naked in the same room.(Sookie Stackhouse, Dead in the Family)
— Charlaine Harris, Dead in the Family
The secret weapon is cucumber.'Solange sat all the way up. 'Jasmine, cover your ears.'MaryAnn, Juliette and Jasmine burst out laughing.'Sheesh, Solange. Get your mind out of the gutter.''MY mind is just fine, thank you. It's MaryAnn's I'm concerned about.''You put them on your eyes,' MaryAnn said, laughing even harder.
— Christine Feehan, Dark Possession