#heaven

When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven! ↗

— Thomas Howard

#call #church #earth #family #heaven

We read about the name Jesus was given at his birth; Immanuel, meaning “God with us”. This God wasn’t content with dwelling in fiction, this God wasn’t content living with the seraphim and this God wasn’t content with bulls and goats anymore. This God wanted to dwell with you, with all of your mess, with all of your failures with all the dirtiness that is you; he wanted to sit with you. Here’s the amazing thing, God doesn’t care if you’re a catholic, a Lutheran, Post modern or Emergent; he wants to sit with you. ↗

— Ricky Maye

#earth #emergent #emerging #failure #faith

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. ↗

— Washington Irving

#equable #gifts #good nature #heaven #inexhaustible

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. ↗

— James Joyce

#heaven #kingdom #like #suffers #violence

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#echoing #heaven #only

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

— Derek Walcott

#city #heaven #new #new world #such

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven. ↗

— Charles V

#conscience #endeavor #heaven #invade #over

And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#believe #better #christians #get #go

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#different #earth #education #found #had

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#forward #go #heaven #man #once