Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'
Pilate was merciful till it became risky.
And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins
Prayer does not change God; it changes me.
I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?