7 Lessons from Heaven Quotes

“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” —MAHATMA GANDHI”
― Mary C. Neal, 7 Lessons from Heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life

“When we choose to forgive, we choose to accept the depth of God’s love and grace for all people, acknowledging that there is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. It concedes that we cannot see the bigger picture of God’s intricate tapestry of life.”
― Mary C. Neal, 7 Lessons from Heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life

“What I’ll never forget was that, during the whole conversation, Jesus was endlessly patient, gentle, and mesmerizing. He seemed light of spirit, with a sense of humor.”
― Mary C. Neal, 7 Lessons from Heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life

“The choice to hang on to bitterness and anger may feel virtuous but has a destructive nature. As the wise theologian Lewis Smedes said, “When we attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, we endow it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not even have the decency to die when those we hate die—for it is a parasite sucking our blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it; forgiveness.”1”
― Mary C. Neal, 7 Lessons from Heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life

“What is dying?” he wrote. “I am standing on the seashore. A ship sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. She is an object and I stand watching her until she fades from the horizon and someone at my side says, ‘She is gone!’ Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all. Her diminished size and loss of sight is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, ‘She is gone!’ there are others who are watching her coming, gladly shouting, ‘Here she comes!’—and that is dying.”
― Mary C. Neal, 7 Lessons from Heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life

“As Albert Einstein famously said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Mary C. Neal, 7 Lessons from Heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life