#heaven

There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas that she did not believe either in hell or in ghosts. Hell she thought was merely an invention got up by the priest to keep people good; and ghosts would not be permitted, she held, to go 'trapsin about the earth' at their own free will; 'but there are faeries,' she added, 'and little leprechauns, and water-horses, and fallen angels.' I have met also a man with a mohawk Indian tattooed upon his arm, who held exactly similar beliefs and unbeliefs. No matter what one doubts one never doubts the faeries, for, as the man with the mohawk Indian on his arm said to me, 'they stand to reason.' Even the official mind does not escape this faith. ("Reason and Unreason") ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#faery #fairy #fey #heaven #hell

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#dignity #diligence #does #down #float

God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#dead #father #god #guiding #heaven

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ↗

— James Thurber

#any #beliefs #certain #dogs #few

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#city #heaven #new #new world #such

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#earned #earth #heaven #here #pennies

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#garden #heaven #human #human life #life

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#did #earth #fable #heaven #hell

To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#give #heaven #just #live #love

Heaven means to be one with God. ↗

— Confucius

#heaven #means