“If we think that heaven is our country, we should send our wealth thither rather than reatin it here, where on our sudden daparture it will be lost to us
“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
“If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to heaven and bring you home again
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts
“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only
“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders
“Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees, takes off his shoes - the rest sit round it and pluck blackberries
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven
“In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity
“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
“When earth breaks up and heaven expands, how will the change strike me and you in the house not made with hands?
“If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.
“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.