We could not be happy if we reached the kingdom of glory with a heart loving sin. The company of saints and angels would give us no pleasure. Our minds would not be in tune for an eternity of holiness. Let these things sink down into your hearts. We must repent as well as believe, if we hope to be saved.
– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, 1856
Heaven will make amends for all!
– Thomas Watson –
He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.
– EM Bounds –
Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
– Andrew Murray –
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 –
Only heaven will reveal the incredibly complex intertwining of events in which you have played a pivotal role.
– Joni Eareckson Tada –
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 –
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
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