Pastoral Resources

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.

For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?

I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven.

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.