Heaven And Hell Quotes - Page 4

• Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Funny, Women, Heaven

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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• There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft.

  Upton Sinclair

  Order, Heaven, Religion

  Upton Sinclair (2005). “The Profits of Religion”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

  Richard Steele

  Marriage, Wedding, Heaven

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1841). “The Spectator: with sketches of the lives of the authors, an index, and explanatory notes”

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• To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

  Marquis de Sade

  Atheist, Men, Views

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• I am my own heaven and hell!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Heaven

  Robert David MacDonald, Friedrich Schiller (2005). “Schiller: Volume One”, p.140, Oberon Books

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• Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Joy, Heaven

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• The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Revenge, Heart, Men

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• There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.

  Bertrand Russell

  Snakes, Differences, Alcohol

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• Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspiration, Two, Differences

  "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

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• For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Reality, Heaven

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.147, Harper Collins

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• The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle for his soul; the conviction that human life is nothing more than an uncertain struggle between heaven and hell; the faith in two opposed entities, Satan and Christ - all this was bound to engender those internal discords in which the soul, excited by the incessant fighting, stimulated as it were by the constant promises and threats, ends up by giving in and prostitutes itself to whichever of the two combatants has been more obstinate in its pursuit.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Struggle, Fighting, Winning

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• Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The difference is much more evident in the individuals who dwell there.

  Brandon Mull

  Differences, Heaven, Matter

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• I'm tired of advertising! I'm looking for new solutions that make people laugh and amuse. Italian creativity is too narrow, it still hasn't overcome the dichotomy limits between heaven and hell.

  Renzo Rosso

  Tired, Creativity, Italian

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• God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feeling, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Law, Space, Evil

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.62, Fig

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• Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

  George Orwell

  Independent, Civilization, Evil

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• Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.

  Laozi

  Ambition, Self, People

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• People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Law, People

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• The universe is a meat grinder and we're just pork in designer shoes, keeping busy so we can pretend we're not all headed for the sausage factory. Maybe I've been hallucinating this whole time and there is no Heaven and Hell. Instead of having to choose between God and the devil, maybe our only real choice comes down to link or patty?

  Richard Kadrey

  Real, Shoes, Choices

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• You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to become Christ-like. The actual world is an illusion.

  George Harrison

  Heaven, Mind, Goes On

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• We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Beautiful, Real, Heart

  Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”

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• Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.

  Arthur Miller

  Blow, Wind, Heaven

  "The Crucible". Play by Arthur Miller, 1953.

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• I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

  Harry Chapin

  Journey, Thinking, Heaven

  Song: Sequel

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• It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition.

  Charles Fort

  Expression, Heaven, Hell

  "The Book of The Damned". Book by Charles Fort, 1919.

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• It seems to me in a general sense we as a society are enamored with the mystical, mysterious, the unseen & unknown. We are looking for the hidden teaching, the secret scroll or fountain of youth, and of course heaven and hell.

  Bryan Kest

  Teaching, Heaven, Secret

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• There are no physical divisions in the subtle domain and therefore no barriers between heaven and hell, light and shadow.

  Deepak Chopra

  Light, Heaven, Shadow

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “Life After Death: The Book of Answers”, p.142, Random House

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