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Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. — Jesus · 61In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. — Jesus · 90Mark Twain2 quotes
The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. — Mark Twain · 1897The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, “Where is the best place to go to?” He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages—heaven for climate, and hell for society. — Mark Twain · 1901Anton Chekhov1 quote
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. — Anton Chekhov · 1898G.K. Chesterton1 quote
To an open house in the evening
Home shall men come,
To an older place than Eden
And a taller town than Rome. — G.K. Chesterton · 1916John Lennon1 quote
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky. — John Lennon · 1971John Milton1 quote
What if earth
Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein
Each to other like, more than on earth is thought? — John Milton · 1667Jules Renard1 quote
On Earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard · 1896Peter Abelard1 quote
O what their joy and glory must be,
Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see! — Peter Abelard · 1142Pope John Paul II1 quote
Allow me to depart to the house of the Father. — Pope John Paul II · 2005Samuel Taylor Coleridge1 quote
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found the flower in his hand when he awoke-Aye! and what then? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1816Sir Thomas Browne1 quote
Were the happinesse of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1658William Wordsworth1 quote
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither. — William Wordsworth · 1807