#heaven

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#chinese #country #get #heaven #into

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#each #every #every man #forefathers #heaven

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#alive #because #committed #companionship #had

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again. ↗

— Will Carleton

#away #back #been #earth #fellow

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#diamond #dust #heaven #jewels

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. ↗

— William Congreve

#fury #hatred #heaven #hell #like

What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

#hell #hell is #himself #his #life

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it. ↗

— Princess Diana

#does #give #hands #heaven #hiv

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. ↗

— John Donne

#despair #heaven #hell #joy #serenity

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believe in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to. ↗

— John Green

#death #heaven #life #religion #death