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- When all the world dissolves,
- And every creature shall be purified,
- All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Doctor Faustus
- What if earth
- Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein
- Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, American Note-Books, 1836
If we would know what heaven is before we come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirits, and we shall find it there among holy thoughts and feelings.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, American Note-Books, 1841
To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, July 1, 1925
The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
ANATOLE FRANCE, The Revolt of the Angels
- Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves
- sad and happy all at the same time
- Going away isn't really sad
- especially when your going
- enables a new kind of presence
- to be born.
MACRINA WIEDERKEHR, Seasons of Your Heart
Heaven is always taken by storm.
MAXWELL ANDERSON, Elizabeth the Queen
Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means, you cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
BRAM STOKER, "A Dream of Red Hands"
Union with God is the only heaven there is, and it begins here on earth.
MACRINA WIEDERKEHR, A Tree Full of Angels
God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!
CARYLL HOUSELANDER, This War is the Passion
We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now--to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means:
- loving as he loves,
- helping as he helps,
- giving as he gives,
- serving as he serves,
- rescuing as he rescues,
- being with him for all the twenty-four hours,
- touching him in his distressing disguise.
MOTHER TERESA, A Gift for God
Hatred unlocks no doors in heaven.
WILLIAM F. DEVAULT, "idol of Clay"
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
THOMAS MOORE, "Come Ye Disconsolate"
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