"All that is sweet, delightful,
and amiable in this world ...
is nothing else but Heaven breaking
through the veil of this world."
-William Law

"To different minds,
the same world is a hell,
and a heaven."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I find the great thing in this world
is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving:
To reach the port of heaven,
we must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it, but we must sail,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The main object of religion
is not to get a man into heaven,
but to get heaven into him."
-Thomas Hardy

"Heaven is not dull;
it is not static; it is not monochrome.
It is an endless dynamic of joy in which one
is ever more oneself as one was meant to be."
-Jeffrey Burton Russell

"Heaven is the secret
we cannot hide and cannot tell,
though we desire to do both.
We cannot tell it because it is a desire
for something that has never
actually appeared in our experience . . .
We cannot hide it because our experience
is constantly suggesting it."
-C. S. Lewis

"Heaven will be inherited by every man
who has heaven in his soul."
-Henry Ward Beecher