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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

God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy

When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?

Maybe I'm in Hell. That's okay, I'm not scared of Hell - it's just Heaven for bad people.

Mr. Vesey, though, he didn't like any kind of talk about heaven. He said that was the coward’s way, ...

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

It costs a man just as much or even more to go to hell than to come to heaven. Narrow, exceedingly n...

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Poor Cook, thought Captain, I must be kinder to her. She makes a splendid pet. How faithful she is! ...

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Under the penitential gatesSustained by staring SeraphimWhere the souls of the devoutBurn invisible ...

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What's the light of Heaven look like on earth? Like sunlight streaming through clouds in the tackies...

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Tad WilliamsThe Dirty Streets of Heaven

The questions of God – meaning in Milton’s phrase “The god who hung the stars like lamps in heaven” ...

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You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven wa...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

Heaven has no taste.""Now-""And not one single sushi restaurant."A look of pain crossed the angel's ...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

I don’t reckon it’s allowed, going round setting fire to people,” said Adam. “Otherwise people’d be ...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

Well, Hell was worse, of course, by definition. But Crowley remembered what Heaven was like, and it ...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more then Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation ...

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He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who...

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The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bli...

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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substi...

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But there you put your finger on what it is that separates the sheep from the goats, and vice versa:...

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Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews...

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Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of...

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As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed a...

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Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherw...

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Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise...

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There is honey in this land sweeter than any I know of, and I have cut cane in places where the dirt...

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Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a m...

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I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm...

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...All who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, sav...

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He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of mo...

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Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

God does not exist, as neither does our hereafter, that second bogey being as easily disposed of as ...

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The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

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W. H. AudenA Certain World: A Commonplace Book

This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing...

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Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social ...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, ...

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It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him t...

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

The HurricaneThe tree lay downon the garage roof and stretched, You have your heaven, it said, go to...

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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme...

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So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the tra...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where ...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even lou...

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June suns, you cannot store themTo warm the winter's cold,The lad that hopes for heavenShall fill hi...

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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

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AberjhaniCollected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry