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I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go. Once the sin against God was the greatest sin; but God died, and these sinners died with him. To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing, and to esteem the entrails of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth... What is the greatest experience you can have? It is the hour of the great contempt. The hour when your happiness, too, arouses your disgust, and even your reason and your virtue.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man.
— Charles Portis, True Grit
I believed, from the solitary and thoughtful way in which my mother murmured her song, that she was alone. And I went softly into the room. She was sitting by the fire, suckling an infant, whose tiny hand she held against her neck. Her eyes were looking down upon its face, and she sat singing to it. I was so far right, that she had no other companion. I spoke to her, and she started, and cried out. But seeing me, she called me her dear Davy, her own boy! and coming half across the room to meet me, kneeled down upon the ground and kissed me, and laid my head down on her bosom near the little creature that was nestling there, and put its hand up to my lips. I wish I had died. I wish I had died then, with that feeling in my Heart! I should have been more fit for Heaven than I ever have been since.
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a world that I have created in my mind and in my own image, and it gladdens me profoundly to see it unfold without original sin, without expulsions and floods and disobedience and illness. When I am a good guest, I have returned to Eden, where everything I need is provided for me, including companionship and a benevolent deity at my shoulder serving me and protecting me. The concept of paradise may be backward-looking but the concept of heaven is anticipatory. Perhaps this is what heaven will be like? A great table of oak worn smooth with age and candle wax; a dimly lit room, a quartet of angels playing Sarah Vaughan in the corner; this blissful throb of quiet, intelligent conversation; bubbling pots and aromatic stews that no one seems to have worked to prepare; and you - you have nothing to worry about, not now, not here, not for all eternity. Leave it all behind at the threshold, forget everything, for here in heaven, you are my guest. 
— Jesse Browner
...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.
— James Lee Burke, Jolie Blon's Bounce
Christ makes Heaven the standard for God's will be done on Earth. What a high ideal is this! What power it would take to bring such a thing about! Nothing short of the Kingdom of God pulling down strongholds, overthrowing bastions of deeply entrenched sin, and then conquering this present world in such a way as to establish righteousness – nothing short of such things as these can meet the standard that Christ sets before us.
— Geoff Banister
If you read history you will find that the Christians begin the most for the present world are just the ones that thought the most of the next. The Apostles themselves, who set on foot. in the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English Evangelicals who abolished the Slave Trade, all left their mark one Earth, precisely because their minds were occupied with Heaven. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so in effective in this. And that Heaven and you'll get the earth "thrown in": aim at earth and you'll get neither.
— C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity
You can grieve for me the week before I die, if I’m scared and hurting, but when I gasp that last fleeting breath and my immortal soul flees to heaven, I’m going to be jumping over fire hydrants down the golden streets, and my biggest concern, if I have any, will be my wife back here grieving. When I die, I will be identified with Christ’s exaltation. But right now, I’m identified with His affliction.
— R.C. Sproul, A Taste of Heaven: Worship in the Light of Eternity
Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
— William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare
If we listen and observe carefully the dying can teach us important things that we need to learn in preparing for the end of our own life's journey.
— Robert L. Wise, Crossing the Threshold of Eternity: What the Dying Can Teach the Living
Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.
— Paul P. Enns, Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About
God prevented Adam & Even from ETERNAL SINFULNESS by giving them the gift of death, the ability to exit this life & arrive safely in the wondrous life to come. Death, though it would appear to be man's greatest enemy, would in the end, prove to be his greatest friend. Only through can we go to God.
— Paul P. Enns, Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About
Allaah Tabaraka wa Ta`Ala {The Absolute Divine UnNamed} DOES NOT test to "See" if you're worthy of Jannaah or Jahannam ! If only one can perceive this, one knows it is one that places oneself in either station !!
— AainaA-Ridtz
I’ve always been fascinated by science—anatomy, quantum physics, space and time theory. I don’t understand these things, but the mystery is a part of what attracts me to them. That the world I live in now is complex beyond my understanding only encourages me to believe that there are wild possibilities in creation beyond even the things of this dimension of time and space. If this universe has alternate dimensions outside of our understanding, isn’t it possible that we might exist in a life beyond this one, in another kind of dimension that is fuller and more alive than the one we know?
— Bethany Pierce, Amy Inspired
Heaven set couples for babies' birth.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Heaven is no permanent abode of morons even though they may gain entry by sheer virtuosity of their deeds."Ashoka Prasad(Hegelian Lecture)
— Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad
At time I find the true material of my spirit,this earthly body is no longer my only vessel.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
I contemplate the impossible and achieve madness. This is my blessing. This is my curse. My heaven, my hell.
— Melody  Lee, Moon Gypsy
He that asks me what heaven is, means not to hear me, but to silence me; He knows I cannot tell him; when I meet him there, I shall be able to tell him, and then he will be as able to tell me; yet then we shall be but able to tell one another, this, this that we enjoy is heaven, but the tongues of angels, the tongues of glorified saints, shall not be able to express what that heaven is; for, even in heaven our faculties shall be finite.
— John Donne, John Donne - The Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons
Take me on a journey to the place of souls,” she whispered as he moved closer. “I want to close my eyes and feel a little piece of heaven…with you.
— Tracey-anne McCartney, A Carpet of Purple Flowers
Heaven is a perfect place God made for us who love Him! Alleluia! Amen!
— Melvin M. Lusterio
‪Am I dead? Is this heaven? No, I can't be. I'm realizing this as I process my second sensation: discomfort. I turn my head. Ooh, a TV. Maybe it is heaven.
— Karen Bergreen, Following Polly
Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down?
— Eoin Colfer, Airman
He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would say, "Be careful how you turn to the dead. Don't think of the rotting. Hold your gaze and you will see the living light of your dearly loved departed up above in heaven.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
When you try to build Heaven on earth you end up building ghetto's of Hell
— Dean Cavanagh
Heaven resonates when one sings wholeheartedly.
— Toba Beta
I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.
— Peter O'Toole
This is it. This is how I always saw heaven, always by the sea, always by night, always in the dark.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
Rainbows: The gift from heaven to us all.
— Anthony T. Hincks
You can pull people to your own winter and freeze them up or you can take your sun to people’s own winter and warm them up! It is up to you to bring hell or heaven to people’s life!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When I die, bury me with a few garden tools, I shall make a garden in the heaven too.
— Preeth Nambiar, The Solitary Shores
Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemptionFor the sins committed before revelation.
— Carlos Salinas, Got the Flow: The Hip-Hop Diary of a Young Rapper
You are but a tiny cluster upon the vines of heaven, where the grapes are worlds; yet you hold the power to ripen your bitter berries and add to the eternal vintage of cosmic sweetness if so you will.
— Eden Phillpotts, Saurus
- and even though sinners like me can only wish for heaven, my bastard ass has somehow managed to sneak through the door and step into this thing called paradise
— Charleigh Rose, Misbehaved
10 square meters of heaven is worth far more than 100 square meters of hell.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
It's disheartening that most Christians will still miss Heaven because Christians today have forgotten that Heaven is meant for those who declare Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, then confirm that declaration with action
— Gift Gugu Mona
When you compromise the word of God without remorse, it is an indication that you were never deeply rooted in Jesus Christ. Peter was remorseful. Luke 22:54-62.
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible: Volume 1
The strength of the familiar electromagnetic force between two electrons, for example, is expressed in physics in terms of a constant known as the fine structure constant. The value of this constant, almost exactly 1/137, has puzzled many generations of physicists. A joke made about the famous English physicist Paul Dirac (1902-1984), one of the founders of quantum mechanics, says that upon arrival to heaven he was allowed to ask God one question. His question was: "Why 1/137?
— Mario Livio, The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Heaven. You. Your beauty and peace. In all small details. From which, I bite with hunger, small seconds revealed...on this Earth. You Heaven. I am longing after you continously, with so much hunger, with so much missing...craving after you and full with the hope and the desire to get more seconds from you Today. Next hour. Next minute. You...Heaven. The love and beauty and everything that addresses you with everything. You...Heaven.
— Viorica Dragotel
There is no currency that buys great treasures in Heaven like obedience.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If I might share my opinion, this world is hell, and our task is to create our own heaven.
— Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound
To touch the heart of heaven, win a soul for heaven!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
In theory, the idea of eternity in heaven singing God’s praises sounds really good, but when I realize I have to go through the death part to get there, I’m not quite so enamored with the idea.
— Kim Hunt Harris, Middle Finger of Fate
Heaven is a place where you cannot change and nothing can ever happen, so the things you love are always eternal. Hell is exactly the same.
— Geoff Ryman, Air
I am thankful to my physical existence on planet earth, that I completed my literary work from whatever mind I had left, before becoming mindless nonphysical.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
To long for the dawning of the light is to long for the casting out of darkness. To hope for the resurrection of life is to hope for the banishment of death. To dream for the healing of the body is to dream for the excising of the disease.
— Joshua Ryan Butler, The Skeletons in God's Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War
The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according the the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Anything or everything treated as a 'Problem' on planet earth, falls under the clause of mankind's Self' Ignorance , Ego & Immaturity.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise." ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
South Delhi is such a rich area in Delhi, you could call it the heart of Delhi or a slice of heaven for the rarest sight of Delhiites served with cherry.
— Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
Superhuman' is an extraordinary personality living in the godliness and wisdom taking over the human intelligence, a pure eternal life, driven by the divine force, living for the welfare of the mankind unconditionally. Superhumans are those who live to unite with the Supreme Power.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
Let us take birth in our immortality courageously, the way lion walks in the forest roaring.Let us live the way the tiger looks for its prey, to search the Supreme Power in our godliness.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
Leave the body in such a way that the Supreme Power gets notified and becomes aware, attentive and receptive to receive us, the way a child returns back home after decades of touring.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
If you're in 'HELL', you're in a bank.If you're in 'HEAVEN', you're on the other side of the counter.Signed....A Goldman Sachs Representative
— Anthony T. Hincks
But at this point an objection is frequently raised. The "otherworldliness" of Christianity is objected to as a form of selfishness. The Christian, it is said, does what is right because of the hope of heaven, but how much nobler is the man who because of duty walks boldly into the darkness of annihilation! The objection would have some wight if heaven according to Christian belief were mere enjoyment. But as a matter of fact heaven is communion with God and with his Christ. it can be said reverently that the Christian longs for heaven not only for his own sake, but also for the sake of God. Our present love is so cold, our present service is so weak; and we would one day love and serve Him as His love deserves.. it is perfectly true that the christian is dissatisfied with the present world, but it is a holy dissatisfaction; it is that hunger and thirst after righteousness which our Savior blessed. We are separated from the Savior now by the veil of sense and by the effects of sin, and it is not selfish to long to see Him face to face.
— J Gresham Machen
When we treat God as a different identity, our thought process becomes dualistic in nature. This is due to the self ignorance, ego and immaturity; in simple words, less knowledge about our own immortality.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
That in my left pocket I have "heaven"... doesn't mean that in my right pocket I don't have "hell".
— Deyth Banger
We are living in the falsehood due to the erroneous teachings of the society, community and the bordered nations.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
My only stake was the hook I shot in the moon, trying to capture stardom on my way to heaven. Without bravado. Just footsteps plodding me along till my big show. My showstopper. The one where I landed in a place without gravity.
— Juliet Castle, The Silent Partner And Other Stories Of Truth
The syrup of lilies hangs thick and sweet in the air, its cloying scent the traditional mask of death and rebirth: ashes and incense, rain and dirt, and something like rosin. It's the scent Hector associates with God. The scent of heavenly things.
— Kimberly Morgan, On Angels and Rabbit Holes
Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
— John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
The trees and the nature are friendlier in today’s earth than commercial sick mass population.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
Our planet for Superhumans.Let us change the name of our planet as Divine Home,Let us compel the higher consciousness to descend upon our divine home, Let us change the United Nations to United Humans. When the self ignorance, ego and immaturity is removed from mankind, politics and religion will no more exist,When politics is removed, borders won't be required, When the religion is removed, hatred, misbelief and mass ignorance will not exist, god as dual wont exist.Let us live on the 29% earth as one Home, the divine home.Welcome Superhumans”.
— Vishal Chipkar
Everyday is a new day, it is a morning dream as a day which we don't realize but the actual day starts when we fall asleep in our conciousness and report to the universal god, the Supreme Power.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
Time is zero, no human made Calender's, colour of which the eyes could fail to identify, the taste of which the tongue could derail, the aroma of which the breathing becomes invalid when we are lost in the Kingdomof Lord, Supreme Power.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
Third, the Stubborn Mind: These are the people who are not willing to explore the intuitions hidden in their religious holy scriptures towards the Soul-Realisation.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
Fate of the worms or insects on earth is 100% better than those who are born as Royals.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
Most of the Mefditations Centres make you becomethe victim of Schizophrenic, which is the mental disorder of hallucinating.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven
— Sunday Adelaja
Before you die, please share your love with the unknown immortal existence which is in your body and unite with the divine to live in godliness after you die....
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
St. Augustine says something which is a great thought and a great comfort here. He interprets the passage from the Psalms ‘seek his face always’ as saying: this applies ‘for ever’; to all eternity. God is so great that we never finish our searching. He is always new. With God there is perpetual, unending encounter, with new discoveries and new joy. Such things are theological matters. At the same time, in an entirely human perspective, I look forward to being reunited with my parents, my siblings, my friends, and I imagine it will be as lovely as it was at our family home.
— Peter Seewald, Pope Benedict XVI
Wherever the kingdom of God extends to, the atmosphere of heaven is established
— Sunday Adelaja
If there's a password needed at the gates of heaven, only Latin will unlock it, he thinks.
— Kimberly Morgan, On Angels and Rabbit Holes
Be an embodiment of the petition, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven
— Sunday Adelaja
Life is not the end, and death is just the beginning...
— Rebecca McNutt, Perfect Little Angel: A Short Story
If you are planning to meditate and imagine all the demigods in the darkness then you would become Schizophrenic. Most of the meditations Centres make you become the victim of Schizophrenic, which is the mental disorder of hallucinating.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
Those who live a long life without realising their spiritual goals are as similar to the hygienic zombies walking on earth.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
Fate of the worms or insects on earth is 100% better than those who are born as Royals. The difficulty with royal families are, they are not aware of how the universal consciousness has planned their birth and for what purposes?
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
She rose and she remembered, remembered and rose, until she had gone too far for fear to snatch her back.
— Peni R. Griffin, The Ghost Sitter
Heaven has no room for the self-righteous.
— C. Robert Cargill, Dreams and Shadows
Pairs are made in HeavenPromises are take on Earth...
— Shonali Dey, The Essence of Eternal Happiness
Pairs are made in HeavenPromises are taken on Earth...
— Shonali Dey
Perhaps I love happy endings because I have been created for one. Heaven.
— Afton Rorvik, Storm Sisters: Friends Though All Seasons
The kingdom of God is a fragment of heaven
— Sunday Adelaja
You are created to reflect heaven on earth
— Sunday Adelaja
To be filled with bliss and harmony on earth is a reflection of heaven order
— Sunday Adelaja
He who extend heaven’s reign to the whole earth is fulfilling God’s intention
— Sunday Adelaja
Heaven on earth is a function of the presence of God
— Sunday Adelaja
The principles of earth are the same law that governs heaven
— Sunday Adelaja
The Extension Of God’s Glory Throughout The Earth Is To Fill The Atmosphere Of Heaven
— Sunday Adelaja
The Glory Of God On Earth Demonstrate The Uniqueness Of Heaven
— Sunday Adelaja
To live a life of heaven on earth is a personal discovery
— Sunday Adelaja
Alecto, do you think we have fallen from heaven, or do you think we are falling towards it?
— Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series
Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?
— Molière, Tartuffe
All paradises are there to be expelled from.
— Amanda Craig, A Private Place
Once we get to Heaven we know everything there is to know. We remember every life we've ever lived. We recall everyone we've ever loved. There is much to know here, but there is not too much to learn. That's why we have to do our learning before we get here.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
Heaven is all around you. You just can’t see us because we are vibrating at a higher level than you are. It’s kind of like a dog whistle. There is a noise, a pitch so high that the human ear cannot detect it but it is there nonetheless, for don’t you see all the dogs come running!When we cross Rainbow Bridge we become only love and love is the highest level of vibration; the highest “pitch” so to speak. This is why you cannot see us. We are here, only gone from your sight until one day you are the same vibration as we are. When you vibrate in love all the time you will not have to ask again if I am here, you will know that I am here with you.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
Through the waters spilled by the spring, I was remade. Forth I fared, a new plant with new leaves in a new time. The stars were there, and I was set to climb.
— Dante Aligherie, The Inferno
I'm gonna love you Till the heavens Stop the rain.I'm gonna Love you Till the stars Fall from the sky For you and I
— Jim Morrison
Even death is going to die!
— Sally Lloyd-Jones, The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name
GOD is The Author of Life.He is The Author and Finisher of Our Faith. GOD is not the author of confusion. Satan the devil is the author of confusion. the Pope does not speak for GOD. The Pope does not speak for Bible Believing Christians. The Babylonian System of Religion is a system that is based on the web of lies from the pits of hell. The Pope is part of that system.
— Errol Anthony Smythe.
Heaven shows up all the time. But we plan our time so that we show up in other places.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Religion was all about getting dumbasses to line up and sign up, making people pay today for heaven tomorrow.
— Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
I distance myself from heaven and then complain that heaven is distant.
— Camron Wright, The Rent Collector
They're fucking crosses. Just stick them in the ground. If there's a heaven they're already there. If not… it doesn't matter if the crosses are nice or not.
— Robert Ferrigno, Sins of the Assassin
Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Hell and heaven are within us
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
We can make our earth a heaven or a hell based on the choices that we make.
— Kate McGahan
... something wholly new in religious thought. All other heavens have been gardens, dreamlands: passivities, more or less aimless. Even to the majority among ourselves, heaven is a siesta and not a city.The heaven of Christianity is different from all other heavens, because the religion of Christianity is different from all other religions. Christianity is the religion of cities. It moves among real things. Its sphere is the street, the market-place, the working life of the world... Try to restore the natural force of the expression - suppose John to have lived today and to have said 'I saw a new London.
— Henry Drummond, City Without a Church
Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don’t get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven? I mean, if it's Heaven, you should be at your beauty-queen best, and I doubt that all the people who die of old age are wandering around toothless and bald. It opens up a whole additional realm of questions, too. If you hang yourself, do you walk around all gross and blue, with your tongue spitting out of your mouth? If you are killed in a war, do you spend eternity minus the leg that got blown up by a mine?I figure that maybe you get a choice. You fill out the application form that asks you if you want a star view or a cloud view, if you like chicken or fish or manna for dinner, what age you'd like to be seen as by everyone else. Like me, for example, I might pick seventeen, in the hopes I grow boobs by then, and even if I'm a pruny centegenarian by the time I die, in Heaven, I'd be young and pretty.Once at a dinner party I heard my father say that even though he was old old old, in his heart he was twenty-one. So maybe there is a place in your life you ear out like a rut, or even better, like the soft spot on the couch. And no matter what else happens to you, you come back to that.The problem, I suppose, is that everyone's different. What happens in Heaven when all these people are trying to find each other after so many years spent apart? Say that you die and start looking around for your husband, who died five years ago. what if you're picturing him at seventy, but he hit his groove at sixteen and is wandering around suave as can be?Or what if you're Kate, and you die at sixteen, but in Heaven you choose to look thirty-five, an age you never got to be here on Earth. How would anyone ever be able to find you?
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Theologians should study in a seminary and before graduating they should make a visit to heaven and hell after which they should submit their thesis and graduate.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Bird of Paradise, it seemed, had beckoned us on and led us in, to stand here in this place high in the land of volcanoes. It was here in Bali, after returning from the Toraja Star Children, that I first recognized what they meant by us all being born half of heaven and half of earth. And after the mounted warsports of Sumba it was in Balinese ritual that I saw with new eyes the battle for balance between light and darkness. And after Borneo, returning to the sacred Banyan tree and its simian custodians, I had felt that all great trees, what’s left of them, do indeed link heaven and earth in a single forest of life.
— Lawrence Blair, Ring of Fire: An Indonesia Odyssey
His biggest gripe with religion was the concept of heaven, of paradise, that we could only get there after we died. He said any philosophy that cared more about life after death than life before death wasn’t anything he could believe in. That’s why he called this farm Paradise. He said Paradise was ours if we wanted it. It was ours to make in the here and now, not something out there in the future that we had to wait for.
— Tiffany Reisz, Something Nice
Pye turned his paw over and chewed his claws. “Humph. What you think of me is none of my business.”“You don’t know, do you?”“Know more than you . . . Know what?”“You are dead.”Pye patted his paws. “No, I’m not.” He rolled on his back and stretched, enjoying the warmth of the fire.“I’ve been here since 1665.”Pye chuckled. “You are, if I may so, in remarkably good condition.” Apart from the hole in your head, missing tail, and pulmonic plague cough.“I’ve seen them come. Seen them go. Seem them hang around in limbo. That’s what it’s called when beings don’t leave this Earth.”“Purgatory!”“I am responsible for many deaths,” Rita said.“You!?”“They couldn’t build the graves fast enough to bury the bodies.”“I don’t understand how a mere stump-tailed fur ball could endanger life.”“If I were you I'd think that.” A silence followed before Rita said, “I did not work alone.”“Oh?
— Luggs, Heaven Won't Wait
God will give me the place where I don't know, but I want to go to heaven because there is my friends are waiting for me.
— Tanmaya Guru
On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We forget that we are more than human beings on a spiritual journey
—  the fact is we're spiritual beings on a human journey.
The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens.
— Michael Punke, The Revenant
Even though death is the worst thing to go through, Heaven is still the best place to go to.
— Gugu Mona
How can a full grown man carry bomb and kill many innocent people including himself? He was promised life after death. Many Virgins, no sickness. No pain. Because he hates his life on earth here. Sad no? No man is really looking for religion, we're all looking for a better life here and beyond.WHAT AM I DOING FOR TO GAIN THIS LIFE ETERNAL? IT WAS GIVEN ME FREELY BY GRACE BUT WHAT AM I DOING? HOW FAR CAN I GO?
— Mary Tornyenyor
The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven (522)[.]
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
Though every man naturally abhorreth sorrow, and loves the most merry and joyful life; yet few do love the way to joy, or will endure the pains by which it is obtained; they will take the next that comes to hand, and content themselves with earthly pleasures, rather than they will ascend to heaven to seek it ;l and yet when all is done, they must have it there, or be without it (491).
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
What if you had seen haven open as Stephen did, and all the saints there triumphing in glory, and enjoying the end of their labours and sufferings, what a life would you lead after such a sight as this! Why, you will see this with your eyes before it be long.Thou hast the more cause to doubt a great deal, because thou never didst doubtl and yet more because thou hast been so careless in thy confidence. What do these expressions discover, but a wilful neglect of thy own salvation? As a shipmaster that should let his vessel alone, and mind other matters, and say, I will venture it among the rocks, and sands, and gulfs, and waves, and winds; I will never touble myself to know wheter it shall come safe to the harbour; I will trust God with it; it will speed as well as other men's vessels do. Indeed, as well as other men's that are as careless and idle, but not so well as other mens's that are diligent and watchful. What horrible abuse of God is this, for men to pretend that they trust God with their souls only to cloak their own wilful negligence! (290-291)
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
I am persuaded our discontents, and murmurings with out unpleasing condition, and our covetous desires after more, are not so provoking to God, nor so destructive to the sinner, as our too sweet enjoying, and rest of spirit in a pleasing state. . . . Our rest is our heaven, and where we take our rest, there we make our heaven(457).
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
He will protect me if it is his will. It is not up to me whether I live or die. Either way, Heaven is what'll wait for me - the light at the end of the tunnel.
— K. Weikel, The Blood Room
When you're dying, the unicorn up in heaven gets a note from an angel telling her there's a person who's going to need a ride up soon. The unicorn finds out what the person likes. Favorite foods and books, colors and activities, pets and games. She gets a room ready for him, or her, near people who she knows they'll enjoy being with, maybe other friends and family who have died before.When the unicorn is done, she jumps off of heaven's perch, flies through the blue sky, around the clouds, over any rainbows, and down to the person. She's invisible to everyone. She patiently waits. When the person dies, she gathers them up on her back, using her hooves and horn. All of a sudden, they sit up straight and smile, they laugh, because they're on top of a unicorn and alive again. They hold on tight to her golden reins and the unicorn takes them to their new home, where they're happy.
— Cathy Lamb, My Very Best Friend
Did you knew that the key for heaven opens and the gate for hell.
— Deyth Banger
If you run out on Nellie, what will you say when you meet God?"George swore, laughed, shook his head. "I'll say 'Just send me on to hell. That's where all my friends are, anyway.
— Stephanie Grace Whitson, Sarah's Patchwork
Why bad people live in heaven??If there is heaven so do and hell exist??but why bad are heaven and good also??So you have done here something bad and you greeting saying "Bravo..., Bravo... well made!" - WTF???
— Deyth Banger
If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell.
— Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
Without these supernova explosions, there are no mist-covered swamps, computer chips, trilobites, Mozart or the tears of a little girl. Without exploding stars, perhaps there could be a heaven, but there is certainly no Earth.
— Clifford A. Pickover
As a Christian, our existence here on earth is a sliver of the eternal pie. Our focus should be on the whole pie, and not the sliver.
— Danny L.  Deaubé
I found that I couldn't muster any belief in a literal heaven or hell, anyway. I thought the best we could all do was to look after one another and clean up the various hells we've made right here on earth.
— Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
Gazing out from the mountains, the clouds are whiter, the sky is bluer, the air seeping into your lungs is as clear as the water roaring down from the snow, melting on the high peaks. A place where heaven is a little closer.
— Virginia Alison
God has blessed the vale of Kashmir with grace and grandeur. It is a land of lush green meadows, crystal clear springs and lakes, the majestic rivers and streams, the snow white and roaring cataracts, sweet waters, high snow-covered peaks make it a perfect archetype of the promised land of God.
— Tarif Naaz, SHEIKH MOHAMMAD ABDULLAH : A VICTIM OF BETRAYAL
I don’t think very many people get converted by someone telling them they are terrible. No one I’d want to rub shoulders with in Heaven, anyway.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
All the way to heaven is heaven.’ It is not just about the happy ending, but making every step along the way matter. It is a good way to live a life, do you think?
— Becky Doughty, All the Way to Heaven
I'm not sure why God made us the way He did... As to why we're here, well, I think maybe we're here to learn to love Him. To learn to love God and to want to be with Him. I think we're here to cultivate our longing for heaven. 'Luke sighed. 'Heaven,' he said, 'seems like a long, long way off, Dad.'Jack nodded. 'It does. But I think God gives us glimpses of heaven from time to time to help up nurture the desire... I see glimpses every spring when the earth renews itself. And sometimes I see glimpses in a worship service when I'm singing about Jesus and all of a sudden I feel like I'm right there in His arms.
— Susan Meissner, In All Deep Places
I am a daughter, a son of God's, part of God's royal family. In the perspective of eternity, many things of this world are petty, beneath me: Vulgarity, stinginess, greed, grudges.
— Ken Untener, The Little Black Book for Lent 2016: Six-minute reflections on the Weekday Gospels of Lent
the most shocking thing when people pray for heaven, from the one and only heaven....!
— Sushil Singh
We need help from above if we are to make progress in our journeys.
— Anasazi Foundation, The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
What if heaven is just a vast consciousness that the dead return to? And their assignment is to report on the experiences they collected during their time on earth?...The spring mornings they woke up to a million birds singing their hearts out, and the summer afternoons with the swim towels hung over the porch rail, and the October air that smelled like wood smoke and apple cider, and the warm yellow windows of home when they came in on a snowy night. "That's what my experience has been,' they say, and it gets folded in with the others--one more report on what living felt like. What it was like to be alive.
— Anne Tyler
God never ends anything on a negative
—  God always ends on a positive. Because what is negative about going home?
There Peter was, looking straight into the very eyes of God, walking the Sea of Galilee and then all of the sudden up to his neck in water. Some would argue he lacked the true believing, I say he had enough faith to go it a ways, and when he couldn't go farther Christ fetched him up.What am I saying? I'm saying that the walk to God ain't easy for the best of us. Now some would say, Preacher, if Peter had misdoubts there in the very glory of the Lord, what of us left here that ain't seen the dead raised nor the leper folk healed. All we seen is hard trial and sorrows. I'd not deny it.Burdens are plenty in this world and they can pull us down in the lamentation. But the good Lord knows we need to see at least the hem of the robe of glory, and we do. Ponder a pretty sunset or the dogwoods all ablossom. Every time you see such it's the hem of the robe of glory. Brothers and sister, how do you expect to see what you don't seek?Some claim heaven has streets of gold and all such things, but I hold a different notion. When we’re there, we’ll say to the angels, why, a lot of heaven’s glory was in the place we come from. And you know what them angels will say? They’ll say yes, pilgrim, and how often did you notice? What did you seek?
— Ron Rash
Tacitus laughed at the Germanic tribes who tried to stop a torrent with their shields, but it is no less naive to believe in planetary migration or to believe in the establishment by purely human means of a society fully satisfied and perfectly inoffensive and continuing to progress indefinitely. All this proves that man ,though he has inevitably become less naive in some things, has nonetheless learned nothing as far as essentials are concerned; the only thing that man is capable of when left to himself is to "commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways," as Shakespeare would say. And the world being what it is, one is doubtless not guilty of a truism in adding that it is better to go to Heaven naively than to go intelligently to hell.
— Frithjof Schuon, Light on the Ancient Worlds
Maybe I'm in Hell. That's okay, I'm not scared of Hell - it's just Heaven for bad people.
— Steven Moffat
For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be within us. Therefore it knows our prayer even before we have uttered it, for it is closer to our hearts than to our 
— Paracelsus, Paracelsus: Essential Readings
He kissed her for an eternity, which was fine, because heaven had eternities to burn. Then he kissed her for another.
— B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
You bad birds,But God shall not punish you, youShall be with us in heaven, though lessConscious of your happiness, perhaps, than we.Hell is a not quite satisfactory heaven, probably,But you are the fruit and jewelsOf my arrangement . . .
— John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
We don’t need to wait for Heaven. Heaven is with us now.
— Mark Andrew Poe
Earth is a heaven but man often creates many hells within this heaven and a fascist country is one of the hottest and the most suffocating hell amongst all those hells!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What God cares about most is that we live a good life. The apostles were good examples. He does not expect perfection. Choosing the right road will help lead us to heaven.
— Phil Mitchell, A Bright New Morning: An American Story
I lack nothing, I tell you!”“Nothing?” I asked. “Not even heaven?”He lowered his head and was silent. But after a moment:“Heaven is too high for me. The earth is good, exceptionally good–and near me!”“Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Being strong isn't enough, being at limit is the real success. Why? 'cause the heaven is the only N' one limit to fly as away as you can.
— Metamorphosis 1398
The future glories of heaven have been overshadowed by the present glitter of earth, and many Christians have sunk into a health-wealth-and-prosperity comfort zone from which only death itself or the rapture of the church would dare remove them - and even those would be unwelcome intrusions to some. Few people long for heaven. (pg. 158).
— John MacArthur, Jr.
Heaven is huge. It’s a world. It’s not a flat place in the clouds with billowing fabric blowing around and baby angels sitting on clouds, dropping grapes in your mouth.
— Paul Silway, Heaven I - Paradise: The City and Throne
There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving motherShe takes care of you when you are still in her womb.She nurtures you after you are born.She hurts when you fall,She celebrates when you make your first steps.She is the only person who genuinely cares about you.She loves you as she loves herself.Her heart is your true paradise.I love you mama.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
There is no greater heaven the heart of a loving mother
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.
— Homer, The Odyssey
Paradise is the heart of the people who speak well of you; who think fondly about you because of your exemplary life. Hell is is the heart of the people who curse you, who wish you were dead for your evil actions against them
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Maybe we do go home, finally.
— Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
It all begins with faith. If we believed animal went to heaven, we wouldn't send them there prematurely
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
If my mother will not go to heaven, I renounce the privilege
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
If there is but one pearl of wisdom I have to impart to you, after all my observations here thus far, it is do not take yourself too seriously. Because when you get here, you might just find that you are not exactly who or what you thought you were.
— Natasha Rendell, Arthur's Cosmic Heaven
Today the journey is ended,I have worked out the mandates of fate;Naked, alone, undefended,I knock at the Uttermost Gate.Behind is life and its longing,Its trial, its trouble, its sorrow;Beyond is the Infinite MorningOf a day without a tomorrow.Go back to dust and decay,Body, grown weary and old;You are worthless to me from today—No longer my soul can you hold.I lay you down gladly foreverFor a life that is better than this;I go where partings ne'er severYou into oblivion's abyss.Lo, the gate swings wide at my knocking,Across endless reaches I seeLost friends with laughter come flockingTo give a glad welcome to me.Farewell, the maze has been threaded,This is the ending of strife;Say not that death should be dreaded—'Tis but the beginning of life.
— Wenonah Stevens Abbott
There are three heavens. The first heaven is the earth and the world of mankind, and the third heaven is where God dwells. However, the second heaven is a place of time and space, where both demons and angels tread, plot, and fight against each other.
— Alan Kinross, Longinus the Vampire: Redemption
Open the door and close the heaven, because we stay here on earth.Jan Jansne
— Jan Jansen
Until your our last breath, lots of surprises waiting for you each day, and at those points you can't do anything, just wait, watch and react according to the situation like helpless kid.After the last breath also, you don't know, even more surprises are there for you like heaven or hell.. Hahaha, it's the true meaning of life....
— Nutan Bajracharya
Oh, Heidi! Heidi!" Marta exclaimed at last. "This is your garden. I know it even though you have not told me. Do you suppose in Heaven it is any more beautiful than this?""I sometimes think that Heaven is all around us, if we only have eyes to see it," Heidi said softly."And on the Alm too?" questioned Marta."Yes, and in Dorfli. Even in the chateau which seems so gloomy now. There must be a little Heaven there as well. And if not, Marta, why not make it so?
— Charles Tritten, Heidi's Children
He is himself again, more himself than at any time on this Earth." Nancy Reagan on her husband
— Bill O'Reilly, Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency
Birds are the eyes of heaven, and flies are the spies of hell.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We tried to make a heaven of earth,But the earth is just a stage, a school,Where we wear our masks and play our rolesAnd teach each other how to love.
— Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master
So across the chaos, the Devil looks at God and falls deeply in love with Her. She looks at Him, and the same thing happens. They get married and have some children—first light, then the dry land, and all the trees, and so on and so forth. Last of all, She gives birth to Adam and Eve. They worship their mother, but not their father. He gets jealous. God and the Devil fight. They agree to split up. She gets to keep heaven, and He has to move in to hell. Then she talks bad about Him to their children, makes them hate Him.
— Erin O'Riordan, Cut
There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There is must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live. And so, in hope and solitude, my story ends.
— H.G. Wells
God is not sitting in heaven thinking about how to make you comfortable. Your comfort might actually be his least concern.
— Sunday Adelaja
The Protestant church today need to borrow a leaf from the actions of the Protestants of old. We need to preach the gospel not just from the aspect of selfish gains and profit, but from the kingdom perspective whereby we strive to build the kingdom of God through each believer on the earth as it is in heaven.
— Sunday Adelaja
This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the fields building and producing.
— Sunday Adelaja
This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the fields building and producing
— Sunday Adelaja