14. Heaven

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 3:20

Heaven will be the perfection we have always longed for. All the things that made earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven. There will be no night, no death, no disease, no sorrow, no tears, no ignorance, no disappointments, no war. It will be filled with health, vigor, virility, knowledge, happiness, worship, love and perfection. > Billy Graham

A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just whose thought most of the next. > C. S. Lewis

Religion can offer a person a burial service, but Christ offers every person new, abundant and everlasting life. > Wilma Reed

Faith is the Christian’s foundation, hope is his anchor, death is his harbor, Christ is his pilot and heaven is his country. > Jeremy Taylor

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. > C. S. Lewis

We are not citizens of this world trying to make our way to heaven; we are citizens of heaven trying to make our way through this world… We live as those who are on a journey home; a home we know will have the lights on and the door open and our Father waiting for us when we arrive. > The Anglican Digest

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did for the present world were those who thought most of the next. The apostles themselves, who set out on foot, to convert the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English evangelicals who abolished the slave trade, all left their mark on earth, precisely because their minds were occupied with heaven. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this one. Aim at heaven and you will get earth “Thrown in”. Aim at earth and you will get neither. > C. S. Lewis

To believe in heaven is not to run away from life; it is to run toward it. > Joseph D. Bunco

See also Isaiah 65:17-25; John 14:1-6.