Bob Greene Quotes

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

If life after death really does exist, everyone probably gets what they expect to get, because that's the only thing I can think of that would be fair.

I dread my trial at the pearly gates - knowing my luck, I'll be hot on the heels of a blameless nun who will be ushered straight to a luscious cloud with prime sea views.

If the people that love you are the people at your side on your last day, and there's not a soul in that room that has any bad words to say about you, well, I'd say Heaven awaits you, my friend.

The memory of the just survives in Heaven.

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

He loves the sparkling fountains and their cascades and says the strangest things as he watches them. they look like stars breaking. Or, They look like Mama's diamonds. Or, They look like all the souls in heaven.

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it is not earned. Augustine said it this way: Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving. But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to Man. That the Soul is immortal. And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous.

The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.

God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

Whoever wishes to be delivered from the Fire and enter the Garden should die with faith in God and the Last Day and should treat the people as he wishes to be treated by them.

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I don’t believe it. After all, what would heaven be without birds or dogs or horses? And what about trees and flowers? They don’t have souls either. Does that mean heaven looks like a cement parking lot? I suppose this is what the nuns call a theological problem.

Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.

Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!

Whoever dies will be rewarded by heaven.

The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.

In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.

The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars.