#heaven

Strangers,are just family you have yet to come to know." -Blue Man ↗

— Mitch Albom

#family

She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me. ↗

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

#kiss #vows #forgiveness

Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don't let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#heaven #hell #forgiveness

Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#books #heaven #heaven-quotes #imagination #reading

We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel? ↗

— Baroness Orczy

#elusive #everywhere #heaven #hell #here

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#goes #going #heaven #hell #i

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#heaven #heir #holiness #holy #made

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#first #first of all #god #heaven #known

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#called #collectively #constitute #divine #flows

As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#heaven #military #religion #tyranny #war