Pastoral Resources

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.

God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going.

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.