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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
-Thomas Hardy
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
-David Hare
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Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal.
-Adolph Harnack
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To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.
-Ernest Hemingway
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As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
-Doug Horton
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If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
-Doug Horton
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The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.
-Doug Horton
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
-James Joyce
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If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
-William Law
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
-C.S. Lewis
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
-C.S. Lewis
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Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
-C.S. Lewis
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“If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.â€
-C.S. Lewis
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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Everybody wants to go heaven, but nobody wants to die.
-Joe E. Louis
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In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
-Alexander Maclaren
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Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep
-Mohammed
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We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
-Dwight L. Moody
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No man can resolve himself into Heaven.
-Dwight L. Moody
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I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
-Christopher Morley
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
-Malcolm Muggeridge
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In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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The kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart --not something that comes upon the earth or after death.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
-Plato
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Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
-Francis Quarles
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Books about Heaven
