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“To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.”

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Author:John Vianney

“I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. I think religion does a lot for us but I can't quite believe it, alas... It's just a personal choice. I love the idea of heaven though. Who doesn't? It's lovely.”

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Author:Paul Bettany

“Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well, what God did was set the mechanism in motion and then allow people to do the best they can under the circumstances that they're dealt in order to gain grace and get into heaven.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.”

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Book:The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised

Source: The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised

“The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.”

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Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!”

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Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God, or the God of the Hindus. What mattered was something deeper and older and more powerful than any such image - it was a concept of goodness based upon the affirmation of life, the turning away from destruction, from the perverse, from man using and abusing man. It was the affirmation of the human and the natural.”

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Author:Anne Rice

“For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.”

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Author:Therese of Lisieux

“Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.”

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Author:Ephrem the Syrian

“Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.”

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Author:Therese of Lisieux

“Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”

“Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.”

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Author:Pope Pius X

“As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or Catholic priest, both together and particularly at the first flare, there really existed in both camps but a single holy German Reich, for whose existence and future each man turned to his own heaven.”

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Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.”

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Author:Camillus de Lellis

“If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.”

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Author:John Vianney

“In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.”

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Author:Christopher West

“In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven”

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Author:Chiara Lubich

“The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it.”

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Author:Elizabeth Ann Seton

“In the end, forever, you and I will be in Heaven or Hell. Period.”

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Author:John Corapi

“When we were little, we kept close to our mother in a dark alley or if dogs barked at us. Now, when we feel temptations of the flesh, we should run to the side of our Mother in Heaven, by realizing how she is to us, and by means of aspirations. She will defend us and lead us to the light.”

“The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.”

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Author:John Vianney

“The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply the state of grace purified, illuminated, beautified by the most perfect purity, exempt not only from mortal sin but also from the smallest faults; purity will make saints of you! Everything lies in this!”

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Author:Peter Julian Eymard

“Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.”

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Book:Lyra apostolica

Source: Lyra apostolica

“Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.”

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Author:St. Jerome