„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 and pluck blackberries.“

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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„Earth's crammed with heaven…But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
„Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.“
— Hans Christian Andersen
„God owns heaven but He craves the earth.“
— Anne Sexton
„Suppose Mother wants Tommy to call at the cobbler's every morning on his way to school to see if her shoes are done, she can ask him afresh every morning. Alternatively she can stick up a notice once and for all in the hall which he will see when he leaves for school and which tells him to call for the shoes, and also to destroy the notice when he comes back if he has the shoes with him.“
— Alan Turing
„True it is that we can only create a heaven for ourselves and others "by the merits of Another," since it is only by working in accordance with God's Laws that we can do anything. But there is nothing at all in these prayers as if God's anger had to be bought off, as if He had to be bribed into giving us heaven by sufferings merely "to satisfy God's justice."“
— Florence Nightingale
„It is time to be old,To take in sail: -The god of bounds,Who sets to seas a shore,Came to me in his fatal rounds,And said: 'No more!“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson