#heaven

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places. ↗

— John McGahern

#actually #australia #believed #canada #closer

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#becomes #christian #christian life #continuation #day

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. ↗

— John Milton

#everlasting #filled #give #heaven #hung

I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#always #because #cds #colours #denied

I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#been #believe #drunks #earth #go

For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven? ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#angels #blessed #choirs #heaven #more

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. ↗

— George Orwell

#evil #evolve #good #good and evil #heaven

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#heaven #hell #life #only #thing

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

— Robert Quillen

#act #every #glimpses #heaven #ourselves

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#dream #earth #graves #greatness #heaven