#heaven

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#choices #courage #destiny #faith #god

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#heaven #hell #minds #same #world

If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians. ↗

— James Purefoy

#awful #believe #christians #fundamentalist #god

By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass, current for the merchandise of heaven. ↗

— John Rutledge

#doing #doing good #god #good #heaven

That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it. ↗

— Thomas Shepard

#dead #earth #fire #flaming #give

Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#go #gone #heaven #i #out

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought. ↗

— Carrie Snodgress

#decided #everything #fought #give #going

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#calmness #carriers #eternal #even #heavenly

Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#another #ceased #dreamed #ears #flock

In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#angels #becoming #beginning #believed #cast