#heaven

"There's no heaven as I had known before. It's just a great universe which is available to be enjoyed by souls who dream about it."

"If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world."

"If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!"

"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love."

"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."

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."

"We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis."

"Your love is my diamond that I want to wear near my heart. Your hug is my heaven where I want to belong always."

"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."

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

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground."

"Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same."

"People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ( "Le ciel c'est l'autre")"

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."

"Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked."

"When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?"He replied: "Because no one admired me."

"Piece of Heaven?""No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking."

"If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button."

"THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow."

"LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long."