Mary C. Neal > 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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