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THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell you And you will turn back The hands of time. Smile, I tell you And you will reflect The face of the divine. Sing, I tell you And all the angels will sing with you! Cry, I tell you And the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterday To guide you through the fears of tomorrow.Suzy Kassem
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Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven.Suzy Kassem
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Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and not in intelligence. It is very arrogant to assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Both rats and monkeys have been shown to learn from error, yet we have not. More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God’s creations really serving God — or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil? .Suzy Kassem
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When the world caves in Still my hope will cling To Your promise Where my courage ends Let my heart find strength In Your presenceHillsong
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God is my heavenly Father.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge —Are boundless.Suzy Kassem
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Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil menBangambiki Habyarimana
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Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholdsBangambiki Habyarimana
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Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me... “is a pious lieBangambiki Habyarimana
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Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe inBangambiki Habyarimana
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Give me something to worship whatever.” Cries the human soulBangambiki Habyarimana
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Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to beBangambiki Habyarimana
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Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam, Why doesn't the Ayatollahs convert to Buddhism, Why isn't Buddhism swept away? Religious leaders know that all religions are equal; they know that no one of them has the monopoly to the knowledge of God. They know that each religion is trying to find the hidden God and that no one religion can claim to have found him beyond doubt. That's why they remain where they are and respect each other.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?Bangambiki Habyarimana
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There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathomBangambiki Habyarimana
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Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world'sBangambiki Habyarimana
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Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we liveBangambiki Habyarimana
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You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do, you will worship Him wholeheartedly. You will praise him with thanksgiving. If you believe He is angry against you, you will come to him with fear and trying to appease his anger. And you don't know when His anger will be over. Such a god keeps you in a perpetual psychological anguish. That is the typical kind of god we usually worship. That is the typical god approved by authority. .Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the worldBangambiki Habyarimana
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God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him on that level they are all equalBangambiki Habyarimana
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What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope. .Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costsBangambiki Habyarimana
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It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignoranceBangambiki Habyarimana
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All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the "will" of god.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yetBangambiki Habyarimana
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Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves those delusions keep their day running.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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An atheist is a disappointed true believer he is an angry and hungry soul who has failed to find a real god to whom he can anchor his hopeBangambiki Habyarimana
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All religions are man-made God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arroganceBangambiki Habyarimana
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The more time you invest into studying religion, the more likely you are to disbelieve in the godsBangambiki Habyarimana
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Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the storyBangambiki Habyarimana
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It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were in error and begin again from square one until they discover the true theory. It's quite different with theologians, they build false theory upon false theory until they give you detailed descriptions of heaven and hell and construct dogmas to protect their errors and if you dare say they are in error they condemn you to eternal damnation they arrived at through false theories .Bangambiki Habyarimana
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I believe only in one God, creator of everything that exists, visible and invisible, good and evil. I believe that he will ultimately save every soul and give it eternal life.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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All religions are guessworkBangambiki Habyarimana
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My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and mindsBangambiki Habyarimana
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Don’t curse the gods you will feel shame when you have to call on them for helpBangambiki Habyarimana
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God is powerful. Even those who claim not to believe in him fear him. Though their mouths may confess to disbelieve in him, their hearts yearn for him.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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All atheists will go to heaven. If god exists, not believing in him does not take him away and he cannot justly condemn those who seek him earnestly and cannot find him. He would even reward their earnest search for him.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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He is an atheist anyone who does not believe in my god and the wrath of god is upon him; I am in my right to meet that wrath on him, " thunders the fanaticBangambiki Habyarimana
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You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hellBangambiki Habyarimana
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Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinctionBangambiki Habyarimana
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From the club of what atheist call false hope and false god (which offer solace to weak minds), atheist are calling you to their club of no god and no hope (which offers nothing in return. Join the club only if you are a strong minded individual capable of handling your life alone without the help of gods. )Bangambiki Habyarimana
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An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him. Atheism is a cry of despairBangambiki Habyarimana
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I know what is going on in the heart of an atheist. Deep anguish that there is nothing beyond, nothing to live for, nothing to give him hope. I know because I endured the same predicament.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanityBangambiki Habyarimana
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O Heavenly Children, God has blessed you all with many treasures that only the most purehearted already know. His fruitful garden is vast and without measure, and in your own very bodies, He has planted metals of copper, silver and gold.Suzy Kassem
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We must not bind our hearts to the things of the world, no matter how beautiful they are or how much pleasure they give us. Our hearts must soar in the heavens for us to be truly the humans we were meant to be.Aleksandra Layland
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When you kiss, my world falls apart Heaven comes down to woo my heartMunia Khan
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Some people are so much heaven to the square inch that life is simply hell, when she leaves you in order to go south for the winter. (Yes, women are people too, sometimes even threee.)Will Advise
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Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.Nancy Holmes
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.Henry David Thoreau
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If you are in Christ, then you have the heavenly position of His authority and operate on this earth in His name as someone who is from aboveSunday Adelaja
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The sons of God are different because they are givers, just like their Heavenly fatherSunday Adelaja
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Always look heavenward in any situation. Trust God to grant you the needed grace and strength to overcome the situation.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.Anthony Liccione
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The best way to earn paradise in the afterlife is to create it in your life and in the life of your neighborBangambiki Habyarimana
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Moon is the light from a lantern in heavenMunia Khan
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God’s Word is the tool the Holy Spirit uses to change our worldly thinking to heavenly thinking.Elizabeth George
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Wings are of many kinds. Butterfly's wings, vulture's wings, eagle-wings, spread wings of white swans, dragonfly's serene wings, wings of albatross, lovely wings of humming birds, tiny wings of a fly or a bumble-bee-wings; and when they fly, they fly their best according to their ability of flying. We should not underestimate the size of those heavenly wings.Munia Khan
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Sometimes all we can crave is a heavenly place with no one aroundShivangi Lavaniya
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If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsakenBangambiki Habyarimana
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It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.Vera Nazarian
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Always follow your bliss; bliss is heavenly. Life will be divinely beautiful and grow spiritually. Life will be beautiful, peaceful, blissful, and divine.Debasish Mridha
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Endeavor to create heaven on earth and turn your heart into the new JerusalemBangambiki Habyarimana
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Birds are the eyes of Heaven.Suzy Kassem
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Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hellBangambiki Habyarimana
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Hell and heaven are within usBangambiki Habyarimana
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Theologians should study in a seminary and before graduating they should make a visit to heaven and hell after which they should submit their thesis and graduate.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving mother She takes care of you when you are still in her womb. She nurtures you after you are born. She hurts when you fall, She celebrates when you make your first steps. She is the only person who genuinely cares about you. She loves you as she loves herself. Her heart is your true paradise. I love you mama.Bangambiki Habyarimana
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There is no greater heaven the heart of a loving motherBangambiki Habyarimana
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Paradise is the heart of the people who speak well of you; who think fondly about you because of your exemplary life. Hell is is the heart of the people who curse you, who wish you were dead for your evil actions against themBangambiki Habyarimana
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If my mother will not go to heaven, I renounce the privilegeBangambiki Habyarimana
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Your heavenly eyes are shining like a late night star To be in heaven, I like to get lost in those eyes forever.Debasish Mridha
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One of the most distinct features of this whole human history is god flattery! People never get tired of buttering every kind of gods in the hope of getting earthly benefit or obtaining heavenly plunder! Man is no doubt a tireless flunkey!Mehmet Murat Ildan