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Heaven is the place where the donkey at last catches up with the carrot.
Anonymous.
It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) British novelist.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo – Irish satirist.
Hell is paved with good intentions, but heaven goes in for something more dependable. Solid gold.
Joyce Cary (1888-1957) British author.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.
Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.
Bp.Hall.
He that studies to know duty, and labors in all things to do it, will have two heavens one of joy, peace, and comfort on earth, and the other of glory and happiness beyond the grave.
There is a land where everlasting suns shed everlasting brightness; where the soul drinks from the living streams of love that roll by God’s high throne! Myriads of glorious ones bring their accepted offering. Oh! How blest to look from this dark prison to that shrine, to inhale one breath pf Paradise divine, and enter into that eternal rest which waits the sons of God!.
Bowring.
If I never reach haven I expect to find three wonders there: first to meet some I had not through to see there; second to miss some I had expected to see there; and third the greatest wonder of all to find myself there.
John Newton.
There are treasures laid up in the heart, treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death when he leaves this world.
Buddhist Scriptures.
Heaven’s the perfection of all that can be said of thought riches, delight, harmony, health beauty; and all these not subject to the waste of time, but in their height eternal.
Shirley.
To that state all the pious on earth are tending. Heaven is attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its nature; is enriching itself by the spoils of the earth, and collecting within its capacious bosom whatever is pure, permanent and divine, leaving nothing for the last fire to consume but the objects and slaves of concupiscence; while everything which grace has prepared and beautified shall be gathered and selected from the ruins of the world to adorn that eternal city “which hath no need of the sun or moon to shine in it; for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof”.
R.Hall.
My gems are falling away but it is because God is making up his jewels.
Wolfe.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
Shakespeare.
It is heaven upon earth to have a man’s mind move in charity, rest in providence and turn upon the poles of truth.
Bacon.
“Do you think we shell know each other in heaven?” said one friend to another. “Yes” was the answer. “Do you think we shell be greater fools there than here?”
Evans.
Where is Heaven? I cannot tell. Even to the eye of faith, heaven looks much like a star to the eye of flesh. Set there on the brow of night, it shines most bright, most beautiful; but it is separated from us by so great a distance as to be raised almost as high above our investigations as above the storms and clouds of earth.
Guthrie.
Few, without the hope of another life, would think it worth their while to live above the allurements of sense.
Atterbury.
The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
Lavater.
There are two unalterable prerequisites to man’s being happy in the world to come. His sins must be pardoned and his nature must be changed. He must have a little to heaven and a fitness for heaven. These two ideas underlie the whole of Christ’s work, and without the title to, and the fitness for, no man can enter the kingdom of God.
Seeley.
Every saint in haven is as a flower in the garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor that they all send forth, and with which they fill the bowers of that paradise above. Every soul there is as a note in some concert of delightful music, that sweetly harmonizes with every other note, and all together blend in the most rapturous strains in praising God and the Lamb forever.
Jonathan Edwards.
Anonymous.
It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) British novelist.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo – Irish satirist.
Hell is paved with good intentions, but heaven goes in for something more dependable. Solid gold.
Joyce Cary (1888-1957) British author.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.
Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.
Bp.Hall.
He that studies to know duty, and labors in all things to do it, will have two heavens one of joy, peace, and comfort on earth, and the other of glory and happiness beyond the grave.
There is a land where everlasting suns shed everlasting brightness; where the soul drinks from the living streams of love that roll by God’s high throne! Myriads of glorious ones bring their accepted offering. Oh! How blest to look from this dark prison to that shrine, to inhale one breath pf Paradise divine, and enter into that eternal rest which waits the sons of God!.
Bowring.
If I never reach haven I expect to find three wonders there: first to meet some I had not through to see there; second to miss some I had expected to see there; and third the greatest wonder of all to find myself there.
John Newton.
There are treasures laid up in the heart, treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death when he leaves this world.
Buddhist Scriptures.
Heaven’s the perfection of all that can be said of thought riches, delight, harmony, health beauty; and all these not subject to the waste of time, but in their height eternal.
Shirley.
To that state all the pious on earth are tending. Heaven is attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its nature; is enriching itself by the spoils of the earth, and collecting within its capacious bosom whatever is pure, permanent and divine, leaving nothing for the last fire to consume but the objects and slaves of concupiscence; while everything which grace has prepared and beautified shall be gathered and selected from the ruins of the world to adorn that eternal city “which hath no need of the sun or moon to shine in it; for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof”.
R.Hall.
My gems are falling away but it is because God is making up his jewels.
Wolfe.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
Shakespeare.
It is heaven upon earth to have a man’s mind move in charity, rest in providence and turn upon the poles of truth.
Bacon.
“Do you think we shell know each other in heaven?” said one friend to another. “Yes” was the answer. “Do you think we shell be greater fools there than here?”
Evans.
Where is Heaven? I cannot tell. Even to the eye of faith, heaven looks much like a star to the eye of flesh. Set there on the brow of night, it shines most bright, most beautiful; but it is separated from us by so great a distance as to be raised almost as high above our investigations as above the storms and clouds of earth.
Guthrie.
Few, without the hope of another life, would think it worth their while to live above the allurements of sense.
Atterbury.
The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
Lavater.
There are two unalterable prerequisites to man’s being happy in the world to come. His sins must be pardoned and his nature must be changed. He must have a little to heaven and a fitness for heaven. These two ideas underlie the whole of Christ’s work, and without the title to, and the fitness for, no man can enter the kingdom of God.
Seeley.
Every saint in haven is as a flower in the garden of God, and holy love is the fragrance and sweet odor that they all send forth, and with which they fill the bowers of that paradise above. Every soul there is as a note in some concert of delightful music, that sweetly harmonizes with every other note, and all together blend in the most rapturous strains in praising God and the Lamb forever.
Jonathan Edwards.
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