"Earth’s crammed with heaven.”Elizabeth Barrett Browning - (1806–61), English poet.
If the Father deigns to touch with divine power the cold pulseless heart of the buried acorn and to make it burst forth from its prison walls will He leave neglected in the earth the soul of man made in the image of the Creator? If he stops to give the rosebush, whose withered blossoms float upon the summer breezes the sweet assurance of another springtime, will He refuse the words of hope to the sons of of men when the frosts of winter come?
If matter, mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of nature into the multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit like a royal guest to this tenement of clay? No! I am sure that there is another life as that I live today."" William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American lawyer, orator, and politician.
"No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of God, no one has yet heard about the realm of the resurrected and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward to being released from bodily existence.
Whether we are young or old makes no difference. What are twenty or thirty or fifty years in the sight of God? And which of us knows how near he or she may already be to the goal? That life only really begins when it ends here on earth, that all that is here is only the prologue before the curtain goes up – that is for young and old alike to think about.
Why are we so afraid when we think about death? Death is only dreadful for those who live in dread and fear of it. Death is not wild and terrible, if only we can be still and hold fast to God’s Word. Death is not bitter if we have not become bitter ourselves. Death is grace, the greatest gift of grace that God gives to people who believe in him. Death is mild, death is sweet and gentle; it beckons to us with heavenly power if only we realize that it is the gateway to our homeland, the tabernacle of joy, the everlasting kingdom of peace.
How do we know that dying is so dreadful? Who knows whether in our human fear and anguish we are only shivering and shuddering at the most glorious, heavenly, blessed event in the world?
Death is hell and night and cold if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church.
"When Winston reached heaven he would 'require a still gayer palette than I get here below. I expect orange and vermilion will be the darkest, dullest colors upon it, and beyond them there will be a whole range of wonderful new colors which will delight the celestial eye.' " Winston Churchill, (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. Here is was writing about heaven and colors used in painting.
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