My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

"I am not interested in sending people to heaven. I am interested in making people in such a way that, even if they go to hell, nobody can make them suffer. That's freedom, isn't it? "I want to go to heaven, I want to go to heaven," is a huge bondage. Suppose you land in the wrong place. Suppose someone hijacked your airplane on the way to heaven. He didn't crash it; he just landed it in the wrong place. You're finished, aren't you? You're always living with something that can be taken away from you by somebody or something. True liberation is when nobody can take away anything from you."

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

We cannot take a single step towards heaven.
It is not In our power to travel in a vertical direction.
If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.
He raises us easily.

It is out of the question for our people to rise by treading down any of their own number.

Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.

You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.