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“If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.”

Ifs Knows Believe Wells Book Matter Christian Religion Heaven Opinion Fields Morality Eternal Foolish Kingdoms Resurrection Mistaken Maintaining Eternal Life Kingdom Of Heaven

Book:Genesi Ad Litteram

Source: Genesi Ad Litteram

“At my first Masters, I got the feeling, that if I didn't play well, I wouldn't go to heaven.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Play Feelings Heaven Masters Golf

Author:Dave Marr

“I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.”

Ifs Want Said Courses Heaven Masters Golf Golf Course

Author:Gary Player

“The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours.”

Ifs Doe Light Would Be Used Choices Heaven Stars Race Darkness Planets Destruction Astronomy Scales Significance Funeral Cosmic Lit Observers Extinction Mourn Beacons Andromeda Nebula

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?”

Ifs World Believe Might Eye Order Heaven Silence Struggle Atheism Refuse Positive Atheism

Book:The Plague

Source: The Plague

“Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.”

People Ifs Believe Humans Enough Feelings Heaven Powerful Atheism Positive Atheism Honestly Pity Appeals Decent Martyr Selfish Gene

Author:Richard Dawkins

“If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.”

“If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or known violencess. It is from Heaven that the chains have come to fetter the minds of mortals.”

Ifs Mind Real Evil Heaven Nations Causes Church Known Atheism Positive Atheism Chains Mortals Ministers Revolt Fetters

Book:Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense

Source: Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense

“If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.”

Ifs Want Soul Heaven Atheism Judging Broken Positive Atheism Heal Your Soul

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Heaven is supposed to be a perfect place. Yet, it experienced a war (Revelation 12:7). How can there be a war in a perfect place and if it happened before why couldn't it happen again? Why would I want to go to a place in which war can occur? That's exactly what I'm trying to escape, aren't you?”

Ifs Want Trying War Happens Heaven Perfect Happened Atheism Supposed To Be Revelations

Author:Dennis McKinsey

“Its seems to me - it's likely that heaven's here right now. If you could take life with its pain and misery, where you fail and you sometimes win, and if you package it into a game, people would pay a fortune to have this game. And I don't know that I'd want it to be resolved so peacefully that the game would be all over.”

People Ifs Knows Want Sometimes Seems Would Be Pain Games Winning Heaven Pay Failing Atheism Right Now Misery Fortune Positive Atheism Packages

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen, we would already be in heaven. And we are not there. That's where trust and faith comes in. You just say, "Lord, I don't understand it. But one thing I do know is that you understand it and that you are in control and I trust you."”

Ifs Knows Happens Heaven Lord One Thing Bad Things I Trust You Trust And Faith

Author:Benjamin Carson

“If heaven exists, to know that there's laughs, that would be a great thing.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Heaven Laughing Great Things

Author:Robin Williams

“The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just an animal, then he doesn't live forever, he has no soul. And if men don't have a soul, then there's no afterlife. No heaven, no fiery deterrent of hell to keep people in line in this life. And if there's no fiery deterrent to keep people in line, "well then we might as well have hell on Earth!" the critics said.”

“Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.”

Ifs Want Writing Doe Two Different Inspiration Song Heaven Guitar Stealing Different Things Acoustics Zeppelins Acoustic Guitar Stairways Stairway To Heaven

Author:Robin Thicke

“If there are any tears shed in heaven, it will be because we prayed so little.”

Ifs Littles Heaven Tears Shed

Author:Billy Graham

“It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real, dangerous, to accept that mortality was the end for you as an individual. As an atheist, I don't believe in an afterlife, so if you're thinking of murder, if your subject is murder, then that's a physical act of absolute destruction because you're ending something, a body, that is unique. That person never existed before, will never exist again, will not be karmically recycled, will not go to heaven, therefore I take it seriously.”

“If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.”

People Ifs Men Believe Looks Mean Christian Heaven Path Track Awful Islamic Believe In God Fundamentalist

Author:James Purefoy

“You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive.”

Ifs Needs Body Hands Action Dies Heaven Waiting Responsibility Hell Alive Right Now Your Body Our Future Taking Responsibility Your Future Here And Now Heaven Or Hell

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.”

Ifs Men Names Heaven Pay Institutions Bread Wages Bread And Butter

Book:A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings

Source: A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings

“Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.”

Ifs Wells Beautiful Heaven Cities Jazz Beer Chocolate Medieval

Author:James Frain

“Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.”

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Author:Sophie Hannah

“If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.”

Ifs Feelings Religion Three Found Heaven Religious Theory Direct Charity Sensibility Sublime Ratios Faith Hope Religious History Faith Hope And Charity

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.”

Ifs Humans Doe Courses Heaven Destiny Affair Arise

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?”

Ifs Soul Hope Heaven Wealth Riches Pockets

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“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

“Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to our spirits, if it were not to be filled with the infinite variety and freshness of God's love. Some have shrunk from its very infinitude, because they have not realized what God's love can make of it. Human love helps us to understand this. When we have come to love any one with all our power of affection, then there is no monotony or weariness in the days and hours we spend with them.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.”

Ifs Heart Able Heaven Hell Danger Pure All Things Errors Simplicity Purity Pure Heart

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.”

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.”

Ifs Knows Wells Heaven Wish Remains Wish You Drunkenness Wishing You Well

Book:The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations

Source: The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations

“What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own? Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb, Appal the surest hour that life bestows. Serence, and master of yourself, prepare For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven.”

Source: John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice

“Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.”

Ifs Truth Heaven Smell

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)

“Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.”

Ifs Earth Lasts Heaven Judgment Last Day

Author:Charles Kingsley

“The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.”

Ifs Christian Heaven Arrogance Misfortunes

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.”

Ifs Children Age Heaven Adults Aging Innocence Inevitable Yearning Cynicism

Book:Deep Play

Source: Deep Play

“We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.”

Ifs Looks Long God Spirituality Heaven Steps Long Time Vertical Single Step

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth' -- or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.”

Ifs Men Feels Made Stills Age Earth Universe Belief Heaven Space Cases Humility Approach Arrogance New Earth

Author:Rachel Carson

“I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.”

Ifs Giving Kind Stills Helping Would Be Action Heaven Simple Pleasure Effort Direct Charity If I Could Relief Spheres Greatest Pleasures

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.”

Ifs Want Reason Heaven

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.”

Ifs Way Long Heaven Endless Gates Endless Life

Author:William Beveridge

“It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Doe Heaven Stars Secret Influence Poet Vain Height Daring Authorship Natal

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.”

People Ifs Real Care Heaven Failing Eternity This Life Solicitude

Author:John Tillotson

“Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Feelings Happens Courses Heaven Moral Events Ordinary Extraordinary Injustice Maps Rebel Reconcile

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.”

“If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.”

Ifs Wells Ends Play Might Earth Joy Courses Heaven Pleasure Sitting Theater Leaving Dinner Tickets Dining

Book:High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic

Source: High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic

“The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.”

“If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.”

Ifs World Way Believe Use Would Be Three Heaven Fire Generations Advice Experience Fingers Folks Scar Poke Three Generations

Author:Myrtle Reed

“Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.”

Ifs Eye Heaven Prayer Praying Projects Raises Accomplish Performing Enterprise Bless Praying To God Decide Upon

Author:Leopold Schefer