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“Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.”

Men Heaven Nations Enjoy Deserve Gladness

Book:The Campaner Thal; or, Discourses on the immortality of the soul, tr. by J. Bauer

Source: The Campaner Thal; or, Discourses on the immortality of the soul, tr. by J. Bauer

“Mais enfin, bande de critiques, les livres que vous ne comprenez pas ne vaudraient-ils pas au moins que vous les signaliez? For heaven's sake, gang of critics, don't the books which you do not understand at least deserve recognition?”

Book Heaven Deserve Critics Sake Recognition Gang Critique

Author:Boris Vian

“All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]”

Dies Courses Heaven Virtue Path Deserve Opening

Author:Horace

“So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.”

World Should Different Humor Eye Heaven Religious Doubt Heard Angel Deserve Ears Tempted Syllables

Author:Martin Luther

“The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.”

Knows Dream Christian Heaven Christ Grace Deserve Weak Opposites Disciple His Love Ladders Prestige

Book:What's So Amazing about Grace?

Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?

“We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.”

Heaven Race Deserve Assuming Warrants

Author:David Platt