My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man...

Love in this life is expanded by our anticipation of the next life. Those who love under God are never satisfied with small love, or love bound by the flaws of human emotion. Those who...

Because of Jesus’ supposed predestination, God would have had to choose the people who would kill and betray his son, choose the method by which he would be killed (crucifixion), and the time at which...

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Embracing doubt is sometimes threatening, as we fear losing our faith if we explore our doubts. Following that thought, if one loses one’s faith, then as some religions dictate, that individual cannot enter heaven. Since...

Colour outside the lines, live outside the box. Don’t let anyone tell you what to do, or not. Don’t be afraid, listen to your heart.Heaven is a state of being – of one-ness, and Hell...

When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got from Joe Quigg. I was just riding the whitewater in, and...

Love is a Heaven Cake, with clouds for icing. If there are two pieces left, I guess I can have seconds.

Heavenly Father, I will always call on you, I know you will answer.

If there is a heaven we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.

Do I believe in Heaven and Hell? I do, we have them here; the world is nothing else.

PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them…

The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

No ancient Jew was ever promised, or expected, a heavenly life. That was a wild and outrageous teaching of Jesus. Holy text never offers a heavenly hope–before Jesus. Think about it: No matter how faithful...

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)

Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God’s ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.

If no war in heaven, then defeat ain’t misery.

And he’d expected her to feel like heaven, plus nirvana, plus that scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie starts to fly.

Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one’s life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)

Heaven would never be heaven without you.

The more desperate you are to reach heaven, the deeper you descend into hell.

And it stops the witches from goin’ to Hell, so I expect they’d be quite grateful if they understood it properly.

I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I’m heaven’s landscape painter.

Death doesn’t happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you want more than anything is to go home, to be safe, to know you’re okay. But my life was...

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Spread kindness, caring, and compassion and create your own paradise. Infuse it with joy and you’ve created heaven on earth.

Many people don’t fear a hell after this life and that’s because hell is on this earth, in this life. In this life there are many forms of hell that people walk through, sometimes for...

No Condemnation now I dread,Jesus, and all in Him, is mineAlive in Him, my Living Head,And clothed in Righteousness Divine,Bold I approach th’ eternal Throne,And claim the Crown, through Christ my own

He was humbled by her infinite love toward him – it shone through even in his afterlife.

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could...

Jesus’ promise of resurrection of believers came with a demonstration. He did it and said His followers who die will do same. This is leadership! It’s based on truth!

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...

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

In the realm of faith, there is no future tense

Earth’s crammed with heaven…But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.

We must carefully examine our relationship with Jesus Christ before we make any attempts to introduce him to strangers. Matthew 7:21-23

Do I have YOUR permission to be a Supernatural God? If I want to open heaven, and in a moment in time, touch the heart of a daughter and supernaturally break all the darkness, shame,...

No matter how ugly you are; there is always someone who sees his heaven in your eyes.

I know the moment you died,Jesus’ face was smiling on you,Welcoming you into His glorious city of gold. I know you are enjoying the incredible light and peace of His presence right now

Calm, gleam of your emerald kingdom raising my spirit beyond for perspective welcomes a smooth adventure with your golden waves of knowledge and wisdom nurturing the life within…never still, never quiet… Your voice calls out...

No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly… But — you say that dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar… Ask yourselves, all of you… What power would hell have if...

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?...

It is through love that the door to Heaven is opened on earth.

Piece of Heaven?” “No, that other place I’m going to go to for thinking what I’m thinking.

This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.

Do you think heaven’s like that?Could be worse, said Serge. You know all those pushy people who keep telling us we’re not going to heaven? It could be full of them instead.