“What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers
May be heaven's distant lamps.”

“Scripture indicates that heaven is not distant but rather… heaven is near—in another realm.”

“All places are distant from heaven alike.”

“Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.”

“SADNESSES OF THE COVENANT: Sadness of God's love; Sadness of God's back [sic]; Favorite-child sadness; Sadness of b[ein]g sad in front of one's God; Sadness of the opposite of belief [sic]; What if? Sadness; Sadness of God alone in heaven; Sadness of a God who would need people to pray to Him…”

“They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.”

“The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveler".”

“There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist… If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.”

“The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.”

“I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.”