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“We are more of the earth, Farther from heaven these days.”

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“The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love.”

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Book:The Book of Simple Human Truths

Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths

“Death doesn't happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you want more than anything is to go home, to be safe, to know you're okay. But my life was over.”

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“The rich man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven because he is already there.”

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“I knew you were the one when I realized your smile was my heaven, your laugh my favorite song, and your arms my home.”

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Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. If these little creatures knew how great a change awaited them, no doubt they would regret it; but would not all such sorrow be misplaced?”

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Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience continues beyond the grave. More important, it continues under the gaze of a God who loves and cares about each one of us and about where the Universe itself and all the beings withing it are ultimately goind.”

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Book:Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

Source: Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

“she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.”

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Author:Christopher Poindexter

“I feared the defining point of this Hell was its unrelenting uniformity, its lack of variation from type. If there was a heaven at the end of this, it must be filled with great variety, perhaps a multiplicity of intelligent species spread across universes. Yes, heaven would be as full of difference as Hell was of sameness.”

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Book:A Short Stay in Hell

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“When you pray, all heaven prays with you. That's a mighty army.”

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Book:The Still of Night

Source: The Still of Night

“They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment.”

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Book:Damned

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