God gives us our time on earth to build and strengthen our character for heaven.

神给我们时间活在地上，来建造我们，坚固我们的性情，这都是为天国的生活准备的。

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It's the plural for heaven, so the heavens or the heavenly places is this Greek word.

这里用的是复数，天国和神圣之地是同一个希腊词。

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The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother-dust.

大海快乐地敲响了鼓点，花儿踮起脚尖亲吻你，因为，天堂和你一起诞生在大地母亲的怀抱里。

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Now I understand. God in Heaven has been raising you for this place from the day you were born."

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Actually, it's used all across the United States and used across the world, about to come out in a Chinese edition for heaven's sakes.

实际上,在美国甚至全世界都在使用这本书,天晓得,马上要有中文版了

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Sometimes the notion is that it is just terrible for everybody with actual pain and suffering, and others have a notion of a wonderful kind of a heaven in which marvelous things happen to you, sometimes spiritual, sometimes physical depending on the religion.

有时候一些观念是很可怕的,每个人死后,都要受苦受难,而另一些观念就很美好,有一个美妙天堂,在那里你会有非凡的体验,或是精神上的,或是肉体上的,不同的宗教里说法不同

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As it happens, her new album, Don't Hurry For Heaven, also just came out.

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It took Vera Lynn 70 years to have a number-one hit, for heaven's sake.

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But for heaven's sake don't write that we'll invade the U.S. in that year.

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