To Heaven and Back Quotes

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
― Mary C. Neal Md, To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“Life isn’t about waiting for the showers to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” —Vivian Greene”
― Mary C. Neal, To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller”
― Mary C. Neal Md, To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.” —Henry Drummond”
― Mary C. Neal, To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“Las cosas mejores y más hermosas de este mundo no pueden verse o siquiera oírse, pero deben sentirse con el coraz”
― Mary C. Neal, Ida y vuelta al Cielo

“Praying in faith is not an inner conviction that God will act according to our desires if only we believe hard enough. It involves believing that God will always respond to our prayers in accord with His nature, His purposes, and His promises.” —Alvin VanderGriend”
― Mary C. Neal Md, To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“This is the beginning of a new day.
God has given me this day to use as I will.
I can waste it or grow in its light and be of service to others.
But what I do with this day is important because
I have exchanged a day of my life for it.
When tomorrow comes, today will be gone forever.
I hope I will not regret the price I paid for it.”
― Mary C. Neal, To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“AN ATTITUDE OF JOY “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” —Colossians 3:2 (NIV)”
― Mary C. Neal, To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“Why do bad things happen to good people?”
― Mary C. Neal, To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“We live our lives in forward motion, but only understand them when looking backward. I therefore challenge you to keep a six- to twelve-month journal of coincidence”
― Mary C. Neal, To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“Bill and I were surprised to find that a predominant emotion during the first year was fear. Fear that we would never emerge from the emotional fog. Fear that we would never again be able to experience joy. Fear that we would fail our remaining children. Fear that we would forget. I think much of the fear and anxiety we felt was just fear of an unknown future that would not include the son that we loved so dearly. Someone told me, “When you love with all that you have, you grieve with all that you are,” and I would certainly agree with this observation.”
― Mary C. Neal, To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

“We are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by His truth.”
― Mary C. Neal Md, To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story