I'd found heaven.....

I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could,

 but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread

 sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.” 

― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

  

And I saw the river.....

And I saw the river over which every soul must pass 
to reach the kingdom of heaven
and the name of that river was suffering:
and I saw a boat which carries souls across the river
and the name of that boat was love.


~Saint John of the Cross

My soul.....

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven

unless it be through Earth's lovliness.

~Michelangelo