#heaven

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#god #heaven #his #low #may

Each of us has heaven and hell in him... ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#heaven

Neither heaven nor hell can keep me apart from you, Melanie. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#melanie #heaven

You smell heavenly. I slept on your side of your side of the bed because your pillow smells of you. ↗

— E.L. James

#pillow #sleeping #heaven

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#heaven

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. ↗

— Anne Rice

#hell #selfishness

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#blessings #day #discovers #every #find

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child ↗

— Alice Sebold

#family #heaven #murder #pergatory #personal-growth

Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,--it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,--feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy! ↗

— Helen Hunt Jackson

#beauty #california #climbing #female-author #heaven

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#father #firefighting #heaven #hell #humor