#heaven

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

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

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

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. ↗

— Robert Southey

#been #good #good intentions #heaven #hell

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice. ↗

— John Stott

#authority #choice #dare #earth #gives

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#free #free will #heaven #hell #many

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me. ↗

— James Stewart

#come #day #down #frank #heaven

I'm ensuring my place in heaven. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#heaven #i #place

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#bright #eye #face #great #heaven

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why. ↗

— Dinah Maria Mulock

#blindly #charity #done #duty #fail