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After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish c...

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Heaven's net is wide, but its mesh is fine

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

I don't have to worry about Madame Ouche! she'll still be robbing me blind when she's dead!...having...

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And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I ...

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Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important thing...

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You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic o...

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Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be...

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if you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, heaven's going to drive you nuts.

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the crea...

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

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and si...

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!

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Mark TwainThe Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We shoul...

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Of course! the path to heavendoesn't lie down in flat miles.It's in the imaginationwith which you pe...

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Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expec...

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When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!

You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heaven...

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Max Lucado3:16: The Numbers of Hope

The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [...

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Max LucadoExperiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just...

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Max LucadoExperiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would...

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Mitch AlbomThe First Phone Call from Heaven

They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might com...

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Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s t...

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Mitch AlbomThe First Phone Call from Heaven

Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to h...

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N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradis...

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25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming swo...

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Neil GaimanGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But — you say that dreams have no power here? Te...

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Neil GaimanPreludes & Nocturnes

She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as r...

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

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

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

I lack nothing, I tell you!”“Nothing?” I asked. “Not even heaven?”He lowered his head and was silent...

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In order to mount to heaven, you used the Inferno to give you momentum. "The further down you gain y...

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The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.

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Nikos KazantzakisThe Last Temptation of Christ

I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a ba...

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Norman MailerOn God: An Uncommon Conversation

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper...

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NovalisNovalis: Philosophical Writings

Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Par

Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flightThe Stars before him from the Field of Night,Drives Nigh...

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Omar KhayyámThe Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you...

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For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it mus...

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ParacelsusParacelsus: Essential Readings

Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek...

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Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leave...

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They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existen...

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God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in the middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And...

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Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a flu...

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Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed i...

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And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Ou...

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Peter WeissThe Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if i...

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

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter...

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-"Do people look the same when they get to heaven?"-"I don't know. I don't think so."-"Then how do p...

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Do people look the same when they get to heaven?""I don't know. I don't think so.""Then how do peopl...

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Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?""I don't know. I don't think so.""Then how do...

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Once there was and once there was not a devout, God-fearing man who lived his entire life according ...

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A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But aft...

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O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging ...

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What if you had seen haven open as Stephen did, and all the saints there triumphing in glory, and en...

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Though every man naturally abhorreth sorrow, and loves the most merry and joyful life; yet few do lo...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven (522)[.]

I am persuaded our discontents, and murmurings with out unpleasing condition, and our covetous desir...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

Let this hell be our heaven.

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Richard MathesonWhat Dreams May Come

Heaven would never be heaven without you.

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Richard MathesonWhat Dreams May Come

I can't imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,Or what's a heaven for?

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves...

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If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to ...

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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to ...

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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to ...

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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to ...

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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to ...

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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to ...

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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to ...

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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to ...

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Heaven, such as it is, is right here on earth. Behold: my revelation: I stand at the door in the mor...

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We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell f...

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He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.

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Sherman AlexieReservation Blues

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

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Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Hill House

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

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Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Hill House

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)The Haunting of Hill House

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)The Haunting of Hill House

...[W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the ap...

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If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.

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

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Stephen CraneComplete Poems of Stephen Crane