I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
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.
Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.
Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God.
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