Death brings release
Paul P. EnnsHeaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to.
L.M. MontgomeryTag: heaven bible l-m-montgomery
We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose."
"Is that a lie?"
"It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.
Tag: heaven environmentalism paradise
After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
E.M. ForsterTag: happiness love heaven hell
While you try to make peace on earth,
the inhabitants of heaven are still at war.
If we listen and observe carefully the dying can teach us important things that we need to learn in preparing for the end of our own life's journey.
Robert L. WiseTag: death heaven hell crossing-over hospice
.....listening means learning to hear someone's inner world and deepest feelings with far greater attention in order that we don't let our own assumptions get in the way. The dying may speak in images far more akin to dreamland than the world of everyday reality. In order to understand them we have to make adjustments to comprehend a poetic form of expression that is sometimes elusive but actually far more expressive than the world of facts.
Robert L. WiseTag: death heaven hell dying crossing-over hospice
With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.
Tess GerritsenAugustine recast how people should view history, that history was not the story of the rise and fall of empires because those are human things. Those are the city of man. Rather, true history should be the history of salvation, of man moving toward God. It's a focus that takes the light off of this world and shines it much more brightly on the next world.
Thomas F. MaddenThis is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.
Wendell BerryTag: heaven
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