#heaven

If a man could make the earth heaven to get you, could also make it hell for you if he couldn't get you. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#hell #love #vengeance #love

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #god #hearts #heaven

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#heaven #hell #men

All bowmen are caught between heaven and earth, born to discovery, choosing to love and raise their eyes high to a future that is apparent only through the strength of their hope. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#bows #heaven #inspirational #inspirational

I’ve always been fascinated by science—anatomy, quantum physics, space and time theory. I don’t understand these things, but the mystery is a part of what attracts me to them. That the world I live in now is complex beyond my understanding only encourages me to believe that there are wild possibilities in creation beyond even the things of this dimension of time and space. If this universe has alternate dimensions outside of our understanding, isn’t it possible that we might exist in a life beyond this one, in another kind of dimension that is fuller and more alive than the one we know? ↗

— Bethany Pierce

#inspirational

Golden Rule Living is the great simplifier. It places us in another soul’s shoes, taking what can appear to be a com- plex decision that involves another and streamlining it to a one-step process of deciding, “If I wouldn’t like this done to me, then I shall not do it to another. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#earth #god #golden-rule #heaven #honor

... love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#charity #christian #heaven #heavenly-rewards #inspirational

He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different world, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#freedom #heaven #freedom

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

— Stephen Crane

#death #heaven #suicide #death

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#certainties #childhood #craving #desire #eternal