Henning Mankell Quotes

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

I grew up in an area of inner-city Liverpool. There were plenty of opportunities but also plenty of challenges - you could go down the right or wrong path, depending on one moment.

It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

I would go to heaven, if I believed in heaven.

You need to follow your own heart in light of God’s word and do what you feel is right and good for you.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

A space in Paradise equivalent to the size of a foot would be better than the world and what is in it.

In this world there is a paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.

Earth is heaven. Or hell. Your choice.

Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.

All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.

What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two chapters of the Bible are a virtual travelogue of our heavenly home. To visualize heaven accurately, study the Bible continually.

All of heaven we have below.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

If you can answer the question of why you’re doing it, it’s the right thing to do.

I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick.

If your gonna drop out of school / tough grades are not your goal / then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.

The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first, to let it in and, second, how to do so. The first beginning of this is to remember. The second is to recognize the inward pull. For the rest, the stillness itself will guide and lead him to itself.

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!

Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.

The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners