Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he’d jumped off...

Why does that kid think so highly of himself?””Kids that think they’re so smart.They’re everywhere! Destroy is self-esteem!””Yes…I really do think highly of myself.People like me should get a taste of the ups and downs...

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you’ve touched.

Jesus’s resurrection is the beginning of God’s new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord’s Prayer...

Virtue tested: “Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?”

If you are sure that you’re going to heaven when you die, you ought to make the most of today. Why live below God’s standards when He has so many wonderful things planned for you?

Heaven is not heaven without Christ. It is better to be in any place with Christ than to be in heaven itself without him. All delicacies without Christ are but as a funeral banquet. Where...

Life is exactly what you make it; it can be a heaven or hell; it’s all up to you.

Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.

It is not the dead rather the ones who lives through war have seen the dreadful end of the war, you might have been victorious, unwounded but deep within you, you carry the mark of...

I am doing the servant job in order for you to become the owners of Heaven

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?

Hell’s only the flip side of Paradise. Sometimes it’s hard to differentiate between the two.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

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.

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.

Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit!

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it...

There’s just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the fire is warm, and Podo is telling us a story while you’re cooking, and there’s no...

Yeah, but what does that even mean… heaven? Because see, I need to be able to put him somewhere, Zo. In my head, I mean. I need to be able to close my eyes and...