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The domain of God is primarily heaven. That is where he has limited himself to.
— Sunday Adelaja
God forbid we should both go to heaven. Its endlessness would make us hate each other. Better for you to be in heaven and me in hell. We would long for each other, dream of each other, idealize each other. You would rail against God, since he was keeping you from consummating your love. I would send smoke signals from my pit of brimstone - love letters that smelled like sulfur and made you choke. Maybe we would even try to sneak off to purgatory for illicit rendezvous.
— Supervert, Necrophilia Variations
An aroma more heavenly than a flight of angels trickled on the breeze. "Coffee!" He breathed the word like a prayer.
— Karen Kincy, Clockwork Menagerie
There is honey in this land sweeter than any I know of, and I have cut cane in places where the dirt itself tasted like sugar, so that's saying a heap.
— Toni Morrison, Paradise
They have been promising us for a long time — in every culture — that they are going to take us to heaven. They promise heaven because they are making a hell out of this place.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
Life is a dance between heaven and earth, the ebb and flow of life.
— Maurice Spees
God is only interested in fulfilling your needs, not your wants; learn to successfully weed out your wants from your needs. Matthew 6:8
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 3: Revealing the End of the Age
There are so many responses to the truth that would please the heart of our master. Heaven awaits only your decision.
— Sunday Adelaja
Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.
— Toni Morrison, Paradise
My idea of heaven is to be hunting with you in some beautiful park with mountains like here at home but where we won’t need guns or prey but we will just walk together arm in arm in this good world and be by ourselves always together forever and a day.
— James Purdy, Narrow Rooms
When you strive to possess, there is always a reward waiting for you both in heaven and on earth.
— Sunday Adelaja
Heaven is fleeting, but Hell is an eternity. Hell becomes the more so the longer one lives it.
— James Rozoff, Stories Light And Dark: Ten Short Stories
Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall.
— Matthew Arnold
When we are in the dark, true friends are like a ray of light from heaven, it is for us to follow it or not.
— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer
Did my good deed for the day. Still not close to heaven, but it's something.
— April Mae Monterrosa
If I don't make it to heaven, at least I know what hell feels like with this heat!
— April Mae Monterrosa
Nothing you did could have changed anything. And that being angry and blaming yourself for not being able to control the past or the future is only going to hurt worse. If you keep thinking like this, you will only be re-inventing pain.Heaven would tell you that it’s just a little rain. And it’s not the rain that kills you, it’s the pain of wanting to control the sun.
— Tessa Shaffer, Heaven Has No Regrets
You have not been put on earth for the devil to torment you, you have been put on this earth to torment the devil.
— Kris Vallotton
The truth shall set you free only if you cherish the taste of freedom. John 8:31-32
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
Unworthy as I am, he allowed me to go to heaven, and I know the next time I go there, I’ll stay.
— Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
Anyone who thinks heaven is not hot water behind a locked door has forgotten what it means to live.
— Lucy Frank, Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
The more desperate you are to reach heaven, the deeper you descend into hell.
— Sarah Brownlee
Deeply immersed in a constant bubble bath of sin, you cannot communicate with Jesus Christ unless you are ready to get out of the bath. John 1:9
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2 (Read Chapter One)): Astounding Biblical Mysteries revealed in his own words like never before in human history.
When we look at life through the eyes of Jesus Christ, it is absolutely impossible to see any obstacles. Matthew 11:28-30.
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
Do not ask God the way to heaven
—  he will show you the hardest one.
If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.
— Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Heaven” is actually a country that we build within ourselves, or that we continue to build. We come from it, and we harvest materials for it while we are here, doing this through sharing our talents with others, and through being dedicated to our relationships in life, through loving others and through strengthening our ability to believe, through our faith. What is faith? Faith is the strength to believe even when believing is a very difficult thing to do! I think that faith is acquired here in this world, because there is no need to have faith in our eternal countries. But here, as we acquire faith in the midst of our hardships, we are begetting unto our eternal countries the strong glue that holds some buildings and some temples together.
— C. JoyBell C.
-"Do people look the same when they get to heaven?"-"I don't know. I don't think so."-"Then how do people recognize each other?"-"I don't know, sweetie."She sounded tired."They just feel it.You don't need your eyes to love,right? You just feel it inside you. That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.
— R.J. Palacio
Do people look the same when they get to heaven?""I don't know. I don't think so.""Then how do people recognize each other?""I don't know, sweetie."She sounded tired."They just feel it.You don't need your eyes to love,right? You just feel it inside you. That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.
— R.J. Palacio, Wonder
Focus your whole attention on heaven
—  become a citizen of heaven.
It is worthless and senseless to seek help in Egypt, because true help comes only from theLord, Who created heaven and earth.
— Sunday Adelaja
She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me
We have never understood how birds manage to fly,Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem.
— Robert Bly, Talking into the Ear of a Donkey: Poems
Whatever time mother goes to heaven, it is always too soon. Fortunately, she is forever.
— R. N. Prasher
In life, if you are refused membership to a club, you get a refund check for dues paid; what happens to your tithes if Jesus denies you entry to God's Paradise? Mal. 3:10.
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
Any process that fails the Common Sense Test, cannot pass a Biblical Test. Those who have more should share with those who have none or less; not the other way round. Prosperity Gospel is antichrist.
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2: Preparing for God's Paradise
God knows what you need because all you need is Jesus who is God.Matthew 6:25-34.
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
You know the Holy Spirit lives in you when you can defend the Holy Bible without fear or intimidation. John 14:1.
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
Any teachings that fail to recognize Jesus Christ as the author of life, is absolutely antichrist.John 1:1-13.
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When you become a Christian, you are not on earth to fight for Jesus; God needed only one battle to redeem the souls of humanity. It was the cross.
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
Application does not guarantee citizenship; it is granted by the government. In Heaven, citizenship is granted only by Jesus Christ the ultimate judge. Matthew 7:15-23
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
Christianity was derailed when Bible Schools became certification centers for true apostles of Christ. Where is the Holy Spirit? John 16:13
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2: Preparing for God's Paradise
Atheists are not the enemy; the real enemy knows Jesus Christ. Satan and all false prophets know very well that Jesus came from heaven, but still reject him. Matthew 10:36
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
Be prepared for a bit of a stinker! My little lambs always start bleating when told they're not going to Heaven.
— E.A.A. Wilson, Ascension Denied
I believe - I daily find it proved - that we can get nothing in this world worth keeping, not so much as a principle or a conviction, except out of purifying flame, or through strengthening peril. We err; we fall; we are humbled - then we walk more carefully. We greedily eat and drink poison out of the gilded cup of vice, or from the beggar's wallet of avarice; we are sickened, degraded; everything good in us rebels against us; our souls rise bitterly indignant against our bodies; there is a period of civil war; if the soul has strength, it conquers and rules thereafter.
— Charlotte Brontë
He turned to leave when arms suddenly wrapped around him from behind, stalling him. Sighing, he closed his eyes, taking a moment to savor her touch. "Angel.""Luce."He pulled her into his arms as he whispered, "I love you.""I love you, too." Serah said, clinging to him. "When I opened my eyes, I didn't want to be here, because I didn't think you'd be here. I thought you'd be down there again, back in the pit, and I'd take an eternity in your Hell before I took a single second in my Heaven without you.
— J.M. Darhower, Reignite
Once there was and once there was not a devout, God-fearing man who lived his entire life according to stoic principles. He died on his fortieth birthday and woke up floating in nothing. Now, mind you, floating in nothing was comforting, light-less, airless, like a mother’s womb. This man was grateful.But then he decided he would love to have sturdy ground beneath his feet, so he would feel more solid himself. Lo and behold, he was standing on earth. He knew it to be earth, for he knew the feel of it.Yet he wanted to see. I desire light, he thought, and light appeared. I want sunlight, not any light, and at night it shall be moonlight. His desires were granted. Let there be grass. I love the feel of grass beneath my feet. And so it was. I no longer wish to be naked. Only robes of the finest silk must touch my skin. And shelter, I need a grand palace whose entrance has double-sided stairs, and the floors must be marble and the carpets Persian. And food, the finest of food. His breakfast was English; his midmorning snack French. His lunch was Chinese. His afternoon tea was Indian. His supper was Italian, and his late-night snack was Lebanese. Libation? He had the best of wines, of course, and champagne. And company, the finest of company. He demanded poets and writers, thinkers and philosophers, hakawatis and musicians, fools and clowns.And then he desired sex.He asked for light-skinned women and dark-skinned, blondes and brunettes, Chinese, South Asian, African, Scandinavian. He asked for them singly and two at a time, and in the evenings he had orgies. He asked for younger girls, after which he asked for older women, just to try. The he tried men, muscular men, skinny men. Then boys. Then boys and girls together.Then he got bored. He tried sex with food. Boys with Chinese, girls with Indian. Redheads with ice cream. Then he tried sex with company. He fucked the poet. Everybody fucked the poet.But again he got bored. The days were endless. Coming up with new ideas became tiring and tiresome. Every desire he could ever think of was satisfied.He had had enough. He walked out of his house, looked up at the glorious sky, and said, “Dear God. I thank You for Your abundance, but I cannot stand it here anymore. I would rather be anywhere else. I would rather be in hell.”And the booming voice from above replied, “And where do you think you are?
— Rabih Alameddine
I’ll tell you what I don’t believe, Alwyn. I don’t believe there’s a pretty forest in the sky with castles and a white light and God and all his angels waiting to welcome all the good people in. And you and me standing there sick with nerves while they check us out to see if we’ve made the grade. That sounds too much like immigrating to Australia.
— Beverly Rycroft, A Slim Green Silence
Heaven is spectacular, some would say paradise. A magnificent city surrounded by walls of gold and rainbow paths all dazzling in Gods light. There is no fear in Heaven, nor is there pain, and most really have found serenity there
— Stacey Field, The Life and Afterlife of Charlie Brackwood
You see, Squirt, there's heaven, and then there's hell. Hell is where they send all the bad people, like criminals and con artists and parking inspectors. And heaven is where they send all the good people, like you and me and that nice blonde from MasterChef.What happens when you get there? In heaven, you hang out with God and Jimi Hendrix, and you get to eat doughnuts whenever you want. In hell, you have to, uh . . . do the Macarena. Forever. To that "Grease Megamix." Where do you go if you're good and bad? What? I don't know. IKEA?
— Brooke Davis, Lost & Found
And I didn't think you believed in god or a heaven.''Having been here thirty-four days,' I tell him, 'I've changed my mind, Sydney.''Why's that then?' he smiles.'Well, if there's a hell like this place, then there has to be heaven somewhere.
— David Peace, The Damned Utd
I don't know what actually goes down in heaven, if heaven has a grand staircase or a theater where you get to see your impact in a "Crash" kind of cinematic adventure, but I do know our stories work that way--the imprints of ourselves we press into the palms of others have the power to be passed and passed through the hands of many. That the smallest things we do, never thinking twice about them, might be the very things that keep a person alive, and breathing, and standing on that day. I've stopped doubting that kind of impact because believing in it - believing in miracles in the mud of the mundane - gives you so much more purpose than not believing in it at all.
— Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
Heaven is a warm cat and a good book.
— Christina Morris
I am doing the servant job in order for you to become the owners of Heaven
— Sun Myung Moon
You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.
— Elizabeth George, One-Minute Inspirations for Women
I asked, "You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, since heaven and hell - the destinations - are the same thing anyway?""Same - same," he said. "Same in end, so better to be happy on journey."I said, "So, if heaven is love, then hell is...""Love, too," he said.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
It is indeed a song of steps. And as I have often said to you, these steps are not made to descend but to ascend. The questioner wishes then to ascend; and where does he wish to ascend if not to heaven? What does this mean—to ascend to heaven? Does he wish to ascend so as to be in the heavens with the sun, the moon, and the stars? Far from that! But there is in heaven an eternal Jerusalem where the angels, our co-citizens, are. From these co-citizens we on earth are estranged. In this exile we sigh; in the city we shall have joy.
— Augustine of Hippo
For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.
— John Calvin, A Compend of the Institutes of the Christian Religion
You can’t find God through astronomy
—  you can’t find immortality through biology. The Kingdom of Heaven can’t be attained through philosophy. There is only one way that leads to these things and that way is through the spirit.
If there is a heaven we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride
She said, "Well, that's right, she's going to heaven very soon. And now it's time for us to say good-bye to her and tell her how much we love her."Mary martha nodded and looked at the needlepoint in her hands."Will her brain still be hurt, in heaven?" she asked.[Rebecca]....said, "Do you remember that time at the beach, when you went into the water with Gran-Gran and the waves were too big and she lifted you up over them? And you two were laughing so much and you said she was the coolest grandmother in the world?"Mary Martha smiled. "Yes""That is how she will be in heaven," Rebecca said.
— Tim Farrington, The Monk Upstairs: A Novel
Over the years of being stuck in this shit hole called life, I had debated religion and church, souls and freewill, heaven and hell. I had come to a few conclusions. Mankind was too self-serving to understand what He had wanted from them. It wasn’t a million dollar church, it wasn’t perfection, it wasn’t about how many times you prayed or apologized or that one day a month where you fed the homeless. And you weren’t banished to hell for that one time you told someone to fuck off. You didn’t end up in hell for that time you were a bitch to your fellow man. It took a lot to end up there, and man worked at it with crazed enthusiasm. They worked harder at chiseling their way into hell, than any other action.
— L.A. Kennedy, The Divisions
He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven
— Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural
I got a kick out of those who whined about their soul. Worried they were losing it. Let’s get one thing straight, you didn’t lose your soul. You always knew where it was or where it went, you cannot lose something you gave away or sold or had broken past repair. Your soul was like your arm, you didn’t lose your arm. Your arm was either there or it wasn’t, and you usually knew why it wasn’t there
— L.A. Kennedy
All beauty has a dark side. Heaven can't exist without hell.
— Gemma Malley, The Resistance
We are chained to the earth by a chain of gold, but we dare not sever it; for fear of what lies beyond the drop.
— Ciel Phantomhive
I like pros, especially when it comes to tennis and rent boys” — and here I’m really wondering if the pun on prose consolidates Bruce’s feeling toward it versus poetry under the sign of sex, which Bruce sometimes pays for, in order to direct us toward the pleasure of its use-function when monetised, a pleasure seldom associated with poetry, and one that might lead to the company of more pros. He continues: “If I can get a twofer, and the trick looks like Rafael Nadal, I’m in heaven.
— Andrew Durbin, Mature Themes
I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a place I never had to go, for this earth was greater than any paradise.
— Daniel J. Rice, The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness
Have you ever wondered what a witness is? It's someone who has died, who lives in heaven and watches over the lives of those she loved. That's what I do. I watch you. I cheer you on. I hurt when you hurt.
— Gena Showalter, Alice in Zombieland
I won't be able to see heaven if I don't die first, right?
— Jessamine Verzosa, A Miracle
This place can't be heaven, it doesn't have the right vibe.
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
Singing about being rescued will never get old. Never.
— Travis Thrasher, Marvelous
Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is.
— Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
This place is just a trailer for a film, Brandon. Our lives here. Heaven is like the movie. Except there’s only one trailer before the movie. And the movie won’t ever end.
— Travis Thrasher, Marvelous
I miss you, I miss you at night, I can’t sleep without you anymore, I’m scared. Meet me in heaven.
— Efdal Korkmaz
Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives.
— Chris Hodges, Fresh Air: Trading Stale Spiritual Obligation for a Life-Altering, Energizing, Experience-It-Everyday Relationship with God
Poor Cook, thought Captain, I must be kinder to her. She makes a splendid pet. How faithful she is! I always say you can't get the same love from a dog that you can from a human. So clever, too. I believe she understands every word I say. I believe they have souls, just like dogs. It's uncanny how canine a human can be, if you are kind to them and treat them well. I know for a fact that when some dogs in history died, their humans lay down on the grave and howled all night and refused food and pined away. It was just instinct, of course, not real intelligence, but all the same it makes you think. I believe that when a human does, it goes to a special heaven for humans, with kind dogs to look after it.
— T.H. White
Who said death is dead? He's fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better off place.
— Anthony Liccione
Create simple ways to prove the Divine exists in every aspect of your life and then make the choice to cast your gaze only upon those things that make your heart sing loudest.
— Molly Friedenfeld
If the Kingdom is being advanced at any level it represents increase
— Blake Higginbotham, Sonship
And he’d expected her to feel like heaven, plus nirvana, plus that scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie starts to fly.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
The hermit Anthony once told me that a monk is like a fish: take him out of his element and he dies. Silence is his element. In silence you can trade this shoddy world for Heaven.
— Gillian Bradshaw, The Beacon at Alexandria
Your heavenly eyes are shining like a late night starTo be in heaven, I like to get lost in those eyes forever.
— Debasish Mridha
When you painted on earth – at least in your earlier days – it was because you caught glimpses of heaven in the earthly landscape. The success of your painting was that it enabled others to see the glimpses too.
— C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
— Ben Jonson
It’s kind of like a Zen thing. Like playing the piano, or being a centipede in Heaven.
— Peter Watts, Echopraxia
A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.
— Oliver Gaspirtz
Chaucer, like Homer, writes about a journey, but as a Christian he has a different goal. Homer wanted to go home, but Chaucer's pilgrims want a place of man's true home: paradise
— John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
Can I ask you something very personal while you try things on?”“Yes, of course, what do you want to know?”“…well, it’s just that… I don’t want to offend you,” she said uncertainly. “Oh come on, Akane, out with it!” Mitsuko prompted her, “I want to know the answer too!”“Very well,” agreed the little auburn pixie and cut to the chase: “Where are your wings?”The question was so unexpected that I burst out laughing. “I had to part with them when I came down to Earth. “It’s something every angel has to deal with if they’re planning to spend any length of time down here.”“And what’s your life like, up there?” Akane asked. “In the Kingdom of Heaven, we live as beings of pure light.” “Up there, there’s no such thing as fear, pain, hot or cold. We don’t know hunger, suffering, ageing or death. We have no need of food and we don’t sleep. We are the messengers of God and we watch over the lives of mortals. We come to Earth often, but only as spirits, and once we’ve completed our task down here, we always go back to the White Woods.
— A.O. Esther, Elveszett lelkek
All spiritual leaders who live in luxury cannot enter God's Paradise in Heaven. Repent or Perish.
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2: Preparing for God's Paradise
Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.
— Prince Ea
Angels do walk among us. Sometimes the only thing we may not see are the wings resting upon their backs.
— Molly Friedenfeld
Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher purpose with the rank of their blessings and talents.
— Shannon L. Alder
•• Arrogance and pride were the reasons Shaytaan was expelled from paradise. Do not let it be the reason you don't enter paradise.!!
— Mana'hil
In front of us, Annabelle and Aspen argue over whether black-and-white movies are amazing or archaic. Blue walks a few feet behind like he’s waiting for the pair to transition from verbal zingers to hair pulling. He wants a front-row seat for that show, and I don’t blame him.
— Victoria Scott, The Liberator
It's an unholy crusade against good people everywhere, all in my name. If I had a stomach, I'd be sick to it. You see now why so many good people just give up out there? You can only take so much evil pretending to be good. You can only handle so many broken souls acting as if good people are the evil ones, before you raise your hands and claim defeat. But I want you all to understand something. There is evil happening. There are spirits from Hell demonizing. There are even wars planned, and dark judgments justified by the self-righteous fanatics. But none of that means good can't also triumph. None of that means good cannot rise up against hatred, against judgment, against the armies of Hell itself, and bring about a tidal wave of joy and love. Evil does, but good always is.
— Sean Patrick Brennan, The Papal Visitor
You have to love and respect your body, just as you must love and respect your soul, before you can truly love and respect the bodies and souls of those you care for. Of course the body itself is no matter to Heaven for the same reason that matter is no matter. Your gluten and your gluttonous maximus are a corporeal issue. Only your gluttony is an affair of the soul.
— Sean Patrick Brennan, Heaven, Hell, and the Planet in Between: Book 1: The Uniter
When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Whilst the beautifully crafted image of Michel Angelo's youthful looking priestesslooks out from her position on the ceiling of the sistine chapel linked forever with Heaven Earth and Time.
— Daniel Peter Buckley
Likewise, most of the world goes to bed at night under the assumption that if they were to die in their sleep, they would find themselves standing at the pearly gates. After all, good people go to heaven. And just about everybody thinks they are good.
— Andy Stanley
Heaven without love : what a hell. (Paradis sans amour : voilà ce qu'est l'enfer)
— Charles de Leusse
The most serious will miss heaven, the unserious rebel will repent in the last hour.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Life is hell. You don't need a heart. All that is needed is to give into the dark.The heart is only required in the unreachable heaven.
— Arely Martinez Garcia
In Heaven, it is always Autumn".
— John Donne
C.S. Lewis in his second letter to me at Oxford, asked how it was that I, as a product of a materialistic universe, was not at home there. 'Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Or if they did, would that fact itself not strongly suggest that they had not always been, or would not always be, purely aquatic creatures? Then, if we complain of time and take such joy in the seemingly timeless moment, what does that suggest? It suggests that we have not always been or will not always be purely temporal creatures. It suggests that we were created for eternity. Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed by it--how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We aren't adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home.
— Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.
— Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
In order to mount to heaven, you used the Inferno to give you momentum. "The further down you gain your momentum," you often used to tell me, "the higher you shall be able to reach. The militant Christian's greatest worth is not his virtue, but his struggle to transform into virtue the impudence, dishonor, unfaithfulness, and malice within him. One day Lucifer will be the most glorious archangel standing next to God; not Michael, Gabriel, or Raphael—but Lucifer, after he has finally transubstantiated his terrible darkness into light.
— Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis
Hell will be Heaven with Friends, Heaven will be Hell without them.
— Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love
[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
The Key to Heaven
—  Live a peaceful life.
In the beginning, there was the earth, formless and empty. Darkness hung over the surface of the deep. And then there was light. It spilled over the waters, vast and powerful, and its creation severed the unity that had come before. This light was a separate entity from the darkness. Something novel and cruelly different. The spirits called it “day.” Its opposite was called “night.” Between them was evening and morning—the First Day. This division marked the end of peace in the universe. Everything has been pretty much fucked up since then.
— S.M. Reine, Paradise Damned
Our God is an awesome God, he reigns from Heaven above, the most high God of all time.
— Werley Nortreus
The hardest thing to do often comes with no earthly reward; but it supernaturally affects eternity, so it turns into huge deposit in heaven.
— Alisa Hope Wagner
Heaven and stars at the feet of the lovers.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, Love Poems
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
— Alphonse de Lamartine
Its very beautiful over there. I dont know where there is, but I believe its somewhere, and I hope its beautiful.
— Thomas Edison Guerrero Barbosa
We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Even if there were no heaven and there were no hell, would you still follow Jesus? Would you follow him for the life, joy and fulfilment he gives you right now?
— Tony Campolo
I hear it a lot “Heaven is under the women feet,” I doubt that; I found it between them.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
I have got acquainted with Lofty John. Ilse is a great friend of his and often goes there to watch him working in his carpenter shop. He says he has made enough ladders to get to heaven without the priest but that is just his joke.
— L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon
It's over.""I am not the only lord in Hell. Others will rise to take my place. The Morningstar will crave revenge.""Let them come.
— Courtney Allison Moulton, Shadows in the Silence
O, the sorrow of us all,to wander the earth in a shell.And looking to the heavens,we lay to rest in hell.The suffering of the innocentin the midst of Jacob’s well.How the miles fled between us,and that distance is still great.Though on the same shore we now sit,in temporal quietude to wait.The moon is our bright witness;it will lead us to the gate.
— Craig Froman, An Owl on the Moon: A Journal from the Edge of Darkness
Heaven is closer and more real than anything we experience in this life. And ultimately, I think that's why I've seen these glimpses---I'm always on the lookout for them. I believe if you look closely, you can clearly experience them too.
— Reggie Anderson, Appointments with Heaven: The True Story of a Country Doctor's Healing Encounters with the Hereafter
We are people-trees. Our roots are hidden in Earth .The branches spread out on Heavens.The fruits are our energy.Two different energies: The positive and negative ones.The balance of both carries the progress.Article by Author Katerina Kostaki :The Tree of Gnosis in the Garden of Eden
— Katerina Kostaki, Cosmic Light
Why are we here? Why didn't God just make us and place us in Heaven? What is this place called Earth we're sent to reside in until we're called to live in Heaven for eternity? Training Camp Earth...it is the reason we're here. It is simply a training camp of lesson after lesson to build strength and our relationship with God before we go home. What lesson is God working on in your life today?
— Kimberly Loving Ross, The Library Room
Mortals live but their souls are little more than raw energy coursing through flesh. When they die that energy is broken down and returned to the cosmos. There is no heaven, and no hell. Only delusion.
— Plague Jack, Sins of a Sovereignty
What I've been shown by my Angels confirms that we don't die alone, and are immediately greeted by Angels and Spirits. We are whisked away to Heaven, where eager Departed Loved Ones await to celebrate our arrival. I hope that information will someday lessen your grief after a loss.
— Paul Stefaniak
According to your holy book, every single Buddhist, Jew, Hindu, Muslim, follower of various minor traditions or sects, those who do not affiliate themselves with a religious tradition and the approximately 2.74 billion humans who have never had the 'privilege' of hearing the word of your Messiah will be sentenced to eternal damnation in a lake of fire—regardless of moral standings or positive worldly accomplishments. If this sounds like a fair proposition to you, then I bite my tongue—but I honestly believe that the majority of Christians do not agree with these doctrinal assertions, and instead categorize themselves as 'Christians' out of cultural familiarity or perhaps out of complete ignorance in regards to the topic.
— David G. McAfee, Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings
Thoughts are pennies from Heaven
— Hazel Cartwright
There is only one path to heaven. On Earth we call it Love.
— Ayn Rand
You can try to reestablish your connection to Heaven - the connection we all have available to us but have forgotten, or are afraid to use. Then trust the wisdom and guidance that comes forward.
— Paul Stefaniak
The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.
— Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
There was no heaven here. Eternal life meant waking up as a putrid corpse.
— Susan Dennard, Something Strange and Deadly
We love Christmas presents but not Christ; Easter baskets but not crosses. We want to tell our friends with cancer that we will pray for them (we don’t) and our puddle-eyed children that their goldfish have gone to heaven (doubtful). When we lose our jobs we want to take comfort in the idea that God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, but really, how can we? We have absolutely no idea what God has given us or what it might be for. We haven’t talked to Him in ages.
— Heather Choate Davis, Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives
Heaven is the only place where prayers are not made.Heaven is God’s throne. And Earth is his footstool.His Angels worships him day and night. There is always praise to him and never a prayer is uttered.
— Ellen J. Barrier, How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed
They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.
— Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven
If some people go to heaven and some hell, what makes it different than this world?
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Are you ready for the rapture of the churchAre you ready for HeavenOur Lord Jesus Christ now wants all Christians to get into a sense of urgency in our preparation for His second coming.
— Doris Ijeoma Basil, A Sense of Urgency
And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn't been touched yet.
— Louise Erdrich, The Round House
There was never meant to be death, he told them, and now there would be no more death. There was never meant to be war, and now there would be no more war. There was only meant to be peace, and now there would only be peace. There was never meant to be Hell. There was only meant to be Heaven. Now there was no Hell, there was only Heaven. There was only meant to be God. There was never meant to be Satan. Now there was only God, there was no Satan. Hell had to end. It was now on fire and would burn forever. Heaven had now no opposite. It was unopposed. It shone in first light and first colours. The Father's pattern had been broken by Satan, he told them, but now it had been restored. His tapestry had been torn, but now it had been repaired. There was only meant to be love, he reminded them. There was never meant to be hate. Now there was only love. There was no hate. There was only meant to be good. There was never meant to be evil. Now there was only good. There was no evil. The cosmic wheel turned in unhindered harmony, perpetual perfection.
— Philip   Dodd, Angel War
The stars, he said, were actually souls, all the souls that were too restless to be locked up in heaven. They were so restless that God let them stay outside at night to play.
— R.J. Keller, Waiting For Spring
One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,—they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Why have we books in heaven?""Why not?" asked my brother. "What strange ideas we mortals have of the pleasures and duties of this blessed life!...
— Rebecca Ruter Springer, My Dream of Heaven
Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.
— Rebecca Ruter Springer, My Dream of Heaven
I’d once heard a spiritual “riddle” that went like this: “What’s the only thingin heaven that’s the same as it was on earth?”The answer: the wounds in Jesus’ hands and feet.
— Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
When you speak of heaven, let your face light up... When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two or three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defences and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart. It did not last very long, a quarter of an hour perhaps; but it returned to me in a dream at night, and since, through all the barren days, I caught a glimpse of it now and then. Sometimes for a minute or two I saw it clearly, threading my life like a divine and golden track. But nearly always it was blurred in dirt and dust. Then again it gleamed out in golden sparks as though never to be lost again and yet was soon quite lost once more.
— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
Through the veil of Love, one finds the heaven on Earth
— Himanshu Chhabra
And in front of it all are the pearly gates: the proverbial entrance to Heaven that she, in earthly life, thought might not exist. But they are real, not myth or fantasy.As she passes through them, several people greet her. In foreign tongues even, but she understands. Language no longer matter. There are no barriers between herself and others, just love.The gorgeous views seem to go on forever. Ornate structures, mansions, banquet halls, and natural beauty, orchards, gardens. People congregate around huge marble fountains. In the distance are snow-capped mountains of the purist white. She can hear the sounds of rushing rivers and the surf of the ocean at once.Everyone around her is happy, loving, thankful. A choir sings songs of joy and peace while others play musical instruments of every kind in perfect harmony. Children laugh and play in the streets as well as in the clouds above her head.
— Victoria Kahler, Luisa Across the Bay
Politics is applied anywhere, even in heaven.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
When she awakes, she knows where she is. This place, this ancient place sears one’s soul with recognition. 'Heaven' seems an inadequate word for it, but that is what it is known as.
— Victoria Kahler, Luisa Across the Bay
SOON, he replied, which makes better sense under the rules of that country than ours. VERY SOON! he added, clasping my hands; then, unable to keep from laughing, he pushed off from the rock like a boy going for the first cold swim of spring; and the current got him. The stream was singing aloud, and I heard him singing with it until he dropped away over the edge.
— Leif Enger, Peace Like a River
Don't cry after my death . with smiling face send me to heaven.
— yakoobkhan
It’s is not a surprising news that manna should fall from heaven in these days. But this manna will fall for those who cultivated manna farms on the clouds above! He who sow will reap
—  isn't it?
This life is a wading pool compared to the ocean call eternity.
— Todd Stocker, Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter
People do not know what Truth is and what false is. Truth knows both Truth and falseness. However, the false know neither the false nor Truth. People do not know what Truth is, nor do they know what they are being deceived by. When they have a bigger mind and become Truth, they will know the wisdom of the world and will live without death.
— Woo Myung, The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living
Such fatigues and hardship as these serve to wean me more from the earth; and, I trust, will make heaven the sweeter. Formerly, when I was thus exposed to cold, rain, etc., I was ready to please myself with the thoughts of enjoying a comfortable house, a warm fire, and other outward comforts; but now these have less place in my heart (through the grace of God) and my eye is more to God for comfort. In this world I expect tribulation; and it does not now, as formerly, appear strange to me; I don’t in such seasons of difficulty flatter myself that it will be better hereafter; but rather think how much worse it might be; how much greater trials others of God’s children have endured; and how much greater are yet perhaps reserved for me. Blessed be God that he makes the comfort to me, under my sharpest trials; and scarce ever lets these thoughts be attended with terror or melancholy; but they are attended frequently with great joy.
— David Brainard
If heaven was created only for the most stupid clown, then Mr Bean could have been the only righteous man on earth.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!
— Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
With love you could persuade a Pathan to go to Hell, but by force you couldn't even take him to Heaven.
— Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, The Hunt for Kohinoor
High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Mr. Vesey, though, he didn't like any kind of talk about heaven. He said that was the coward’s way, pining for life in the hereafter, acting like this one didn’t mean a thing. I had to side with him on that.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings
Earth is crammed with heaven, and every bush is aflame with the glory of God. But only those who see take of their shoes; the rest just pick the berries.
— Elizabeth Browning
God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in the middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
The cabin on the lake is nothing compared to my mansion in eternity!
— Todd Stocker, Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter
There are some things that you experience with God that you'll never be able to articulate this side of heaven.
— Alisa Hope Wagner, Eve of Awakening
She was home (in Heaven). She was with the Person she was made for, in the place that was made for her.
— Randy Alcorn, Courageous
I’ve heard it said many times when talking about going to heaven, ‘You can’t take it with you.’ It’s true that you cannot take with you your house, car, money, or other things you have valued here on earth, but how about your husband, wife, parents, children, friends, and acquaintances? You personally will never be able to get someone into heaven, but God certainly can use you as a tool to spread the good news as He brings more people to Himself.
— Van Harden, Life in the Purple Wedge!
If there is a ‘this world,’ there must be a ‘that world!’ There must be another world!
— Van Harden, Life in the Purple Wedge!
The Law of God was never a ladder for unsaved people to climb up to heaven. It was always a pattern of life for God’s people who had been saved from judgment by the blood of the Lamb.
— Colin S. Smith, Unlocking the Bible Story: Old Testament 2
I don't know where I am- somewhere between heaven and hell, a place of utter terror and endless confusion.
— Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions
Think of you today how am i and where you belong need to understand meant to do. "Who cares your like might be exemption for me my worked well done. Love?
— Jonathan Guarino
If Miss Watson had told Huck what the Bible says about living in a resurrected body and being with people we love on a resurrected Earth with gardens and rivers and mountains and untold adventures--now that would have gotten his attention.
— Randy Alcorn, Heaven
Suddenly, he felt a tremendous stirring of hope inside his heart; it filled his whole body with its warmth. I may not be that much of a broken man, he thought to himself.
— H. L. Balcomb
His Nana's prayers were moving toward his mother like little butterflies of thoughts wrapped in the most beautiful colors. Each prayer looked like a mini-rainbow.
— H. L. Balcomb
Heaven is inside us,' Ida uttered in a rather loud whisper.
— H. L. Balcomb
In that day every trial borne in patience will be pleasing and the voice of iniquity will be stilled
—  the devout will be glad
She was a light from Heaven, and a beauty for all of us to behold.
— J.W. Lord
What we often feel in ecstatic moments in this world - 'I don't ever want this to stop' - will be the constant thought of our hearts in that world. We shall think it, knowing that in fact it never WILL stop.
— J.I. Packer
When weeds go to heaven, I suppose they will be flowers.
— L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl
I don’t reckon it’s allowed, going round setting fire to people,” said Adam. “Otherwise people’d be doin’ it all the time.”“It’s all right if you’re religious,” said Brian reassuringly. “And it stops the witches from goin’ to Hell, so I expect they’d be quite grateful if they understood it properly.
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
The path to heaven runs through miles of clouded hell.
— Imagine Dragons
I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began
— C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come.
— Randy Alcorn, Heaven
She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
if you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, heaven's going to drive you nuts.
— Mark Driscoll
For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.
— Jerome, Select Letters Of St. Jerome