#heaven

Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God’s, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#god #heaven #inspiration #swedenborg #truth

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#hell #intelligence #paradise #stupidity #intelligence

Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#earth #heaven #life #life

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. ↗

— Amy Tan

#heavens #star #love

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#murder #love

I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you. ↗

— Jason F. Wright

#love-heaven #waiting #life

His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. “Love me, Elizabeth.” Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she looked at him without flinching. “I do. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#elizabeth #ian #judith-mcnaught #love

Heaven, envious of our joys, is waxen pale; And when we whisper, then the stars fall down To be partakers of our honey talk. (Dido, Queen of Carthage 4.4.52-54) ↗

— Marlowe Christopher

#heaven #love #stars #whisper #love

If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#christian #honest #honor #hypocrisy #men

I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Hindu, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth and it is the currency of heaven. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#commercialization #currency #earth #exchange #gold