“Life hereafter for God's children, will be an extension or an amplification, a multiplication of the joy and thrilling, exciting lives we now lead! Hell is the extension, multiplication, amplification, endless continuation of the same awful lives that the wicked people of the world lead even now! Hell is just the opposite of the ecstasies of life in Heaven for the saved and the blessed!” PeopleWorldChildrenJoyHeavenHellOppositesExcitingBlessedSavedEndlessAwfulWickedHeavenlyEcstasyExtensionsThrillingHereafterContinuationMultiplicationExciting LifeAmplification Author:David Berg
“...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.” WorldWayMeanWholeEarthUniverseHeavenPrinciplesOppositesHarmonyStructureWhole WorldRationality Author:Aristotle
“No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.” MaySoulStatesEnoughHeavenHellFutureOppositesFixedGood EnoughPointing Book:Speech in Season Source: Speech in Season
“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.” KnowsDreamChristianHeavenChristGraceDeserveWeakOppositesDiscipleHis LoveLaddersPrestige Book:What's So Amazing about Grace? Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?
“God would not make me wish for something impossible and so, in spite of my littleness, I can aim at being a saint. It is impossible for me to grow bigger, so I put up with myself as I am, with all my countless faults. But I will look for some means of going to heaven by a little way which is very short and very straight, a little way that is quite new[...] It is your arms, Jesus, which are the lift to carry me to heaven, And so there is no need for me to grow up. In fact, just the opposite: I must stay little and become less and less.” WayNeedsLooksMeanLittlesI CanFactsJesusHeavenWishGrowsGrowing UpImpossibleArmsOppositesBiggerAimFaultsSaintLiftsSpiteGoing To Heaven Author:Therese of Lisieux
“If you are going to help people discover God's original will for them, we've got to know what that will is, and He said it very clear in Scripture: He created man to have to dominion over earth. He wanted to establish man's authority on earth to represent heaven on earth, and most of our theological philosophy is completely opposite of that.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenSaidPhilosophyHelpingWantedEarthHeavenClearAuthorityOppositesOriginalsScriptureDominionTheologicalHeaven On Earth Author:Myles Munroe
“God created... light anddark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite."Including matter itself, antimatter"” MatterBigsLightUniverseHeavenHellOppositesClaimsIncludingBangsHeaven And HellAntimatter Author:Dan Brown
“Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience.” StillsIndividualHeavenLevelsHellDivineHorrorOrdinaryOppositesLiberationRealmsMysticalVisionariesDescentVantage PointGoing To HeavenMystical Experiences Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948 Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.” HardLightEarthHeavenHellSweetThousandOppositesForgivingBillionsGentleSarcasmJealousTestamentMercifulOld TestamentMeekDown To EarthResentful Author:Mark Twain