Heaven Quotes - Page 8

Life isn't about how comfortable I can be it is about learning how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable

Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.

Intellectualism is a poor master over passion

It takes a spiritual soldier to maintain salvation.

The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you.

The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person.

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.

Faith is the only belief which remains alive between heaven and hell.

The hermit Anthony once told me that a monk is like a fish: take him out of his element and he dies. Silence is his element. In silence you can trade this shoddy world for Heaven.

If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty

When heavens smile on a man, the earth have no other choice than to respond to his needs

It takes grace to breakthrough to heaven while it takes faith to breakthrough on earth.

When Authority is discovered and faith applied, power is manifested

How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?

Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.

They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.

Embracing doubt is sometimes threatening, as we fear losing our faith if we explore our doubts. Following that thought, if one loses one’s faith, then as some religions dictate, that individual cannot enter heaven. Since heaven is the reward of an earthly existence, doubt becomes the enemy of this reward.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.