#heaven

Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social weapon in the hands of the religious institutions. This split in public values produced or was accompanied by, as it was bound to be, an equally artificial and ugly division in people's lives, so that a man, while pursuing Heaven with the sublime appetite he thought of as his soul, could turn his heart against his neighbors and his hands against the world... Though Heaven is certainly more important than the earth if all they say about it is true, it is still morally incidental to it and dependent on it, and I can only imagine it and desire it in terms of what I know of the earth. (pg. 23, "A Native Hill") ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creator #earth #heaven #nature #art

The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud a farce of frivolous trite The storybook is blank inside Chivalry has died ↗

— Donato DiCristino

#donato #heaven-and-hell #hollywood #limbo-bimbo #magical-prowess

If there is heaven then there must be hell too, don't think that The God is merciful, he didn't create hell for himself. ↗

— John Art

#heaven #hell #merciful #art

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#beauty #heavens #nature #night #night-sky

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God. ↗

— Max Lucado

#christian-life #christian-living #christianity #heaven #beauty

Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. “What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?” Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. “Any place,” he said huskily, “where you are. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#elizabeth #ian #judith-mcnaught #beauty

Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. ↗

— John Milton

#hell #mind #change

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#heaven #mortals #beauty

Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#heaven #l-m-montgomery #beauty

A little girl and her father were walking along in the evening. She was fascinated by the stars, and kept looking up at them, but made no comment until her father asked what she was thinking. She replied, "If the bottom side of heaven is so beautiful, how wonderful the other side must be ↗

— Francis Gay

#heaven #life #wonderful #beauty