#heaven

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

Order is heaven's first law. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#first law #heaven #law #order

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

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived. ↗

— Michelangelo

#deprived #evil #free #free will #given

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

For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#between #bridge #earth #find #god

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. ↗

— Jules Renard

#heaven #pieces

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

Christianity made us think there's one heaven. ↗

— Patti Smith

#heaven #made #think #us