Pastoral Resources

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.