Favorite Quotations ~  Heaven, 2 365 Prescriptions for the Soul

"Heaven is along the way." ~ St. Catherine of Siena

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I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God. ~ Evelyn Underhill

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. ~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Heaven is neither a place nor a time. ~ Florence Nightingale

Turn all your thoughts and aspirations to heaven. Work hard to secure for yourself a place there for ever. ~ Father Damien

Earth's crammed with heaven. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven. ~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

I have lost most of my traditional heaven-and-hell beliefs, finding them used conveniently by good people. There is a bit of the divine in the trees and the creatures who reside there. ~ Ruth Kamps, This I Believe

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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