“In every corner of the Earth there is a sign of Heaven. Every mountain, every valley and every ocean has God written all over it. Hence, it is hard to deny that God is alive and still feel alive on the inside.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“To every living being, breath is essential. To the living God death must happen, because it is through death that God will meet His children in Heaven.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“It’s nice to begin each day with an open mind, but a wonderful, loving fulfillment will come with an open heart, knowing there’s always an angel looking over, each and everyone of us. Amen.”
“Worship belongs to God. It is for God and should be directed to God, for there is no Creator of Heaven and Earth either than God.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“Otherworldiness can be a real temptation in the religion, but the Incarnation itself is a corrective. Down to earth, real flesh and blood. And even at feasts such as the Ascension, which might seem otherworldly, the scripture texts for the day are anything but: "Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?" (Acts 1:11, KJV). As if to say, take a look around; your work is here! One of my favorite passages in the Roman Catholic Breviary, used during Advent, has a practical and yet visionary tone, a combination I find irresistible. Heaven seems to be an important construct in the human imagination, and these words by St. Augustine tempt me to believe that the power to imagine such a heaven is almost heaven enough.
"Let us sing alleluia here on earth, while we still live in anxiety, so that we may sing it one day in heaven in full security... We shall have no enemies in heaven, we shall never lose a friend. God's praises are sung both there an adhere, but here they are sung in anxiety, there in security; here they are sung by those destined to die, there, by those destined to live forever; here they are sung in hope, there in hope's fulfillment; here, they are sung by wayfarers, there, by those living in their own country. So then ... let us sing now, not in order to enjoy a life of leisure, but in order to lighten our labors. You should sing as wayfarers do - sing, but continue your journey ... Sing then, but keep going.”
Source: Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
“Heaven is light to me, light-hearted, and full of holy laughter.”
Source: Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
“Death done well is a life gathered at the edges, wrapped neatly and packaged to be unpackaged in eternity.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“I’m reminded of a dream that the aunt of a friend of mine had; the woman’s name is Cleo and she grew up in Kansas during the Great Depression. In the dream, she is lifted to Heaven when just a child. There, she is greeted by an angel who says, “Take my hand and I will show you to your new home.” The angel and Cleo stroll through Heaven’s shining streets, more radiant than anything the small and nervous girl had seen. However, instead of stopping before one of the lovely houses, they keep walking, then walking some more. The lights begin to dim, the houses are smaller now and the streets not so smooth. Finally, they arrive at a tiny hut near the edge of a dense forest with just enough light to see. Cleo asks, “Is this my new home?” The angel replies, “I’m afraid so; you were just barely good enough to get in.”
“As we stare into the icon, the world we are looking into ishn't shrinking or vanishing. Rather, it is expanding and growing. I like to call this The Wardrobe Effect, borrowed from the scene in C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where the children move into and through a small space (the Wardrobe) to emerge into this vast expansive space (Narnia). An icon is trying to create, via reverse perspective, this same effect upon us. Heaven is more real and larger than this world.”
Source: A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time
“Bealtaine, the time of adolescent growth, where what was planted in the spring was given sustenance to grow. Where, just as plants, our souls are enriched with Light so that we may reach skyward toward heaven.”
Source: The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum