He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.
– EM Bounds –
Heaven – Hell
Pride must die in you – Andrew Murray
Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
– Andrew Murray –
Look forward to being with Christ – Randy Alcorn
The devil wants to obscure the doctrine of the new earth. He doesn’t want people to look forward to being with Christ.
– Randy Alcorn –
Intertwining Events – Joni Eareckson Tada
Only heaven will reveal the incredibly complex intertwining of events in which you have played a pivotal role.
– Joni Eareckson Tada –
Chief danger of our times – William Booth
The chief danger of the 20th century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.
– William Booth –
Forever with the Lord – Archbishop Usher
When Peter saw Moses and Elijah with Christ in his transfiguration, though he had but a glimpse of glory, yet he says “It is good for us to be here.” But Oh! How infinitely good it will be to be in heaven. How shall we then be rapt up with glory, when we shall be forever with the Lord!
– Archbishop Usher –
1581-1656
Waiting Souls – Thomas Brooks
The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him (Lam 3:25). Waiting souls, remember this assurance is yours, but the time of the giving it is the Lord’s; the jewel is yours, but the season in which he will give it is in his own hand: the gold chain is yours, but he only knows the hour wherein he will put it about your necks.
Well! Wait patiently and quietly, wait expectantly, wait believingly, wait affectionately, and wait diligently, and you shall find that scripture made good in power upon your souls, “Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry,” (Heb 10:37, Hab 2:3).
– Thomas Brooks –
from Heaven on Earth: A Treatise on Christian Assurance, 1654
When God leads your life – Corrie ten Boom
When God leads your life, He will lead you safely home.
– Corrie ten Boom –
Heaven is Sweeter – Richard Baxter
I think heaven is the sweeter because many of my old, lovely, affectionate, holy friends are there, and I am the more willing by death to follow them. And should it not be more pleasing to think that my God and Father, my Saviour and Comforter, are there?
– Richard Baxter –
from the book Dying Thoughts, 1683