“and that is what heaven is for, for understanding your life on Earth.”

“There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.”

“Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.”

“God wanted to make heaven and the earth is that heaven. Nowhere in the universe there is so much love, life, beauty and peace. Enjoy your stay with the fellow beings.”

“The life of the husbandman,—a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.”

“Knowing heaven is what heals us on earth.”

“On this sinful, fallen earth, life will remain difficult, fraught with suffering and sadness. But we are looking forward to heaven—and heaven is always better in every realm than the earth.”

“Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.”

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

“Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.”