“What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself.” ThinkingInspirationalLooksHeavenProcessLosesOur LivesBuddhismAbsolutesSakeLosing Yourself Author:Frederick Lenz
“Being born on the earth is the highest honor and greatest privilege. To be alive as human beings gives us the chance to pull off exquisite and Herculean feats of magic that are not possible in nirvana or heaven or any other so-called paradise, higher dimension, or better place,being alive right now is the greatest gift i got from God.” InspirationalGivingHumansEarthHeavenBornChanceHuman BeingsAliveMagicHigherHonorRight NowHighestPrivilegeParadiseDimensionsBetter PlaceExquisiteGreatest GiftsFeats Author:Rob Brezsny
“There's no smoking section in heaven.” InspirationalMotivationalHeavenHealthSmokingSectionsNo Smoking Author:Robert Duvall
“If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven.” IfsMenInspirationalDoeChristianSpiritualFatherHeavenReligiousPathKingdomsOrthodoxCrookedKingdom Of Heaven Author:Silouan the Athonite
“Not only men, but also women, the weaker sex, in going by the narrow path of Christ have received for themselves the Kingdom of Heaven. For there is neither male nor female, but everyone receives his own reward according to his own labor.” MenInspirationalChristianHeavenSexChristReligiousPathFemaleLaborRewardsMalesKingdomsOrthodoxKingdom Of HeavenNarrow Path Author:Ephrem the Syrian
“Adorn yourself with truth, try to speak truth in all things; and do not support a lie, no matter who asks you. If you speak the truth and someone gets mad at you, don't be upset, but take comfort in the words of the Lord: Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of truth, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 5:10).” IfsInspirationalTryingMatterChristianLyingAsksSpeakHeavenReligiousLordSupportComfortAll ThingsBlessedMadSakeKingdomsUpsetOrthodoxSpeak The TruthKingdom Of HeavenPersecutedBlessed Are Those Author:Gennadius of Constantinople
“The saints were people like all of us. Many of them came out of great sins, but by repentance they attained the Kingdom of Heaven. And everyone who comes there comes through repentance, which the merciful Lord has given us through His sufferings.” PeopleInspirationalChristianSufferingGivenHeavenReligiousSinLordSaintKingdomsOrthodoxRepentanceMercifulKingdom Of Heaven Author:Silouan the Athonite
“As it is not possible to walk without feet or fly without wings, so it is impossible to attain the Kingdom of Heaven without the fulfillment of the commandments.” InspirationalChristianHeavenReligiousWalksImpossibleFeetWingsKingdomsFulfillmentOrthodoxCommandmentsKingdom Of Heaven Author:Theophan the Recluse
“Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not allow grace to live in them, and therefore they never have spiritual peace, while in the obedient soul the grace of the Holy Spirit enters easily and gives joy and peace. Whoever bears even a little grace in himself joyfully submits himself to all direction. He knows that God directs even the heavens and the netherworld, and himself, and his business, and everything in the world, and therefore he is always at peace.” PeopleKnowsWorldInspirationalGivingLittlesSoulSelfChristianSpiritualJoySpiritHeavenReligiousLordGraceBearsProudHolyObedienceHoly SpiritOrthodoxSubmitMonkObedientSpiritual Peace Author:Silouan the Athonite
“Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.” InspirationalLittlesDreamPastSufferingTurnsEvilHeavenReligiousSinPleasureKnowingGloryConsequenceLet MeSpreadMortalsBlissGood And EvilTemporaryNot KnowingAgonyBackwardsDamnationRetrospectiveGreat Divorce Author:C. S. Lewis
“The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.” InspirationalShouldSelfAbleJoyUniverseHeavenTermReligiousHellTasteDemandFinalsConsentBlackmailLovelessVetoGreat Divorce Book:The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis