It is very
beautiful over there.
Last words of Thomas Edison
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Dr. Werner von
Braun, well-known for his part in pioneering the U.S. space program, said that
he had “essentially scientific” reasons for believing in life after death. He
explained: “Science has found that nothing can disappear without a trace.
Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies
the fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of the
universe, doesn’t it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece
of His creation - the human soul? I think it does.”
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If God has made
this world so fair,
Where sin and
death abound,
How beautiful
beyond compare,
Will Paradise be
found.
James Montgomery
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Heaven - the
treasury of everlasting life.
William Shakespeare
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Love rules the
camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.
Lord Byron
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As he neared his
end, John Newton exclaimed, “I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in
the land of the living soon.”
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The English
scientist Michael Faraday (1791-1867) is considered to have been one of the
greatest experimental physicists. When Faraday was questioned on his
speculations of a life after death, he replied: “Speculations? I know nothing
about speculations. I’m resting on certainties. I know that my Redeemer lives,
and because He lives, I shall live also.”
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HEAVEN
In childhood’s
days our thoughts of Heaven
Are pearly gates
and streets of gold,
And all so very far
away;
A place whose
portals may unfold
To us, some
far-off distant day.
But in the
gathering of the years,
When life is in
the fading leaf,
With eyes
perchance bedimmed by tears,
And hearts oft
overwhelmed with grief,
We look beyond
the pearly gate,
Beyond the clouds
of grief’s dark night,
And see a place
where loved ones wait,
Where all is
blessedness and light.
And over all we
see the face
Of Him who’ll
bring us to our own -
Not to a far-off
distant place,
For Heaven is,
after all, just Home!
Sue H. McLane
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Earth has no
sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Thomas Moore
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Be assured that
just as an hour is only part of a day, so life on Earth is only part of
eternity.
C.L. Allen [CLA]
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Surely it is not
wrong for us to think and talk about Heaven. I like to find out all I can about
it. I expect to live there through all eternity. If I were going to dwell in
any place in this country, if I were going to make it my home, I would inquire
about its climate, about the neighbors I would have - about everything, in
fact, that I could learn concerning it. If soon you were going to emigrate,
that is the way you would feel.
Well, we are all going to emigrate in a very
little while. We are going to spend eternity in another world. … Is it not
natural that we should look and listen and try to find out who is already there
and what is the route to take?
Dwight L. Moody
It certainly
seems like a good idea to talk about Heaven, meditate about Heaven and read
about Heaven, because, after all, that’s where we’re going to spend eternity.
It’s an important place - our eternal home. So it’s only natural to want to
know what it’s like and what we’re going to be like when we get there.
David Brandt Berg [DBB]
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We can enjoy
Heaven now. We can have half of the enjoyment ahead of time by looking forward
to it, thinking about it, reading about it and anticipating it.
DBB
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Thinking about
Heaven can inspire and encourage us to be more heavenly-minded and realize that
Heaven is a real place where we’re really going to live.
DBB
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Heaven is a city
without a cemetery.
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Think of it -
Stepping on
shore,
and finding it
Heaven!
Of taking hold of
a hand,
and finding it
God’s hand.
Of breathing a
new air,
and finding it
celestial air.
Of feeling
invigorated,
and finding it immortality.
Of passing from
storm to tempest
to an unbroken
calm.
Of waking up and
finding it Home.
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Heaven is
something that we can easily get excited and thrilled about and look forward
to. It will be like Christmas is for children, only it will be the greatest
Christmas we’ve ever had!
DBB
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Heaven and the
spirit world are much more real, beautiful and lasting than the world which you
can see with your natural eyes at this very moment.
DBB
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Heaven is a
beautiful place to be, full of beautiful people having a beautiful time!
DBB
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Where is there a
country without sin, crime, lawlessness, bloodshed, disease, death, sorrow and
heartache? Heaven is a country in which there is the absence of all that is
common to any land, for in God’s country there are no barriers, no walls or
curtains to divide; no race barrier; no soldiers because there are no wars; no
policemen because there is no crime or sin; no undertakers because there are no
graves; no physicians because germs, fevers, pestilences, diseases are unknown;
no thieves because there is no darkness. Who would not yearn for this better
and more desirable country in which there are no separations, no broken homes,
no drunkards, no prisons, no hospitals, no beggars, no persons who are blind,
deaf, dumb or destitute? What a country! Are you not homesick for Heaven?
H. Lockyer
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Heaven is going
to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys
and beauties and pleasures, but without the drawbacks - with all the assets but
none of the liabilities.
DBB
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In Heaven, you’re
going to get just about whatever you want. Heaven’s the place where all your
heart’s desires will be fulfilled - if they’re good ones. Put in your order
now!
DBB
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The more of Heaven we cherish, the less of
Earth we covet.
DBB
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If we really
understood Heaven, we would be most unhappy and unsatisfied with life on Earth.
We would rebel against our earthly limitations. If we saw Heaven, we could not
bear this earth. That’s why Heaven is forever: we cannot bear to leave it after
we get there.
CLA
NO DISAPPOINTMENT IN HEAVEN
Oh, there’s no
disappointment in Heaven
No weariness,
sorrow nor pain,
No hearts that
are bleeding and broken,
No song with
minor refrain.
The clouds of our
earthly horizon
Will never appear
in the sky,
For all will be
sunshine and gladness,
With never a sob
nor a sigh.
We’ll never pay
rent for our mansions;
The taxes will
never come due.
Our garments will
never grow threadbare,
But always be
fadeless and new.
We’ll never be
hungry or thirsty,
Nor languish in
poverty there;
For all the rich
bounties of Heaven,
His Heaven-bound
children will share.
F.M. Lehman
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Heaven is a
permanent residence … a place where we unpack our bags and stay forever. … What
a glorious thought to wake up in Heaven and realize it is home!
CLA
Acknowledgments
Quotations credited to
CLA are taken from The Good News About
Heaven by Charles L. Allen, published by Barbour Publishing, Inc. Reprinted
by permission.
Quotations credited to
DBB are taken from the writings of David Brandt Berg. Reprinted by permission.
Quotations from Herbert
Lockyer are from his book The Life Beyond,
published by Fleming H. Revell.
Quotations that are not
attributed are from unknown authors.
All Scripture is from the
King James (Authorized) Version of the Bible, unless otherwise indicated.
Compiled and edited by Phillip Sherwood
