The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.