“A lot of people think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing except being holy - and they don't find it very appealing! Thank God that is not what Heaven is like!” PeopleThinkingHeavenHolySittingCloudsHeavenlyThank GodDoing NothingSitting AroundHarps Author:David Berg
“Heaven is a pretty practical, common sense, down-to-earth place!” EarthHeavenCommonPracticalsCommon SenseHeavenlyDown To Earth Author:David Berg
“Heaven is not so terribly different from this present existence to where we can't even comprehend or understand it. Otherwise, when we arrived there, we would be completely lost and we wouldn't be able to relate to it.” DifferentWould BeAbleLostHeavenExistenceRelateHeavenly Author:David Berg
“We're going to be surprised when we discover that things in Heaven are normal and natural, much like this life. Of course, it will be better, much more beautiful and supernatural, without all the troubles, trials, tribulations, suffering, tears and pain we have here. However, it will still be enough like this life that we will survive the change and not suffer some sort of traumatic culture shock. It'll be life very much like we're living now, only without the bad and evil.” StillsEnoughPainBeautifulSufferingCultureCoursesEvilHeavenNaturalTroubleTearsNormalTrialsThis LifeShockHeavenlyTribulationCulture Shock Author:David Berg
“Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven.” TryingBelieveHeavenHellConditionsHeavenlyLoved OnesDoing NothingCareless Author:G. Campbell Morgan
“We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to occupy them save playing a harp and incessantly singing.” IdeasHeavenEternalSingingSaintTraditionalHolidayHeavenlyGet AwayHarpsIncessantly Author:Herbert Lockyer
“In Heaven we shall not rest from our work, but from our labors. There will be no toil, no pain in the work.” PainHeavenLaborHeavenlyToilNo Pain Author:David Berg
“We're going to have plenty of work to do, but it's going to be a lot easier than here. There'll be no sorrow, no sickness, no pain, no weariness, no death, no more tears, no more crying. That's certainly going to make things easier. We're going to have rest in Heaven compared to what we've had in this life, but we're also going to have something to do. We'd eventually be unhappy if we didn't!” IfsPainHeavenCryTearsEasierSorrowUnhappyPlentyThis LifeSicknessHeavenlyWearinessNo Pain Author:David Berg
“The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work which God assigns to all.” HelpingRunningLife IsPurposeUniversePerfectEnvironmentLandGoes OnPerfectionUltimateAimBusyHeavenlyPurpose Of LifeFuture Life Author:Edwin Markham
“In Heaven, each of us will have a special place to live. Before Jesus left this earth, He told His followers that He would prepare a place for them and all believers in the hereafter. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also (John 14:2,3). One of these days, we're going to own a mansion that isn't going to cost us anything - no upkeep, no expenses!” IfsMayEarthFatherHouseJesusLeftHeavenSpecialCostBelieverThese DaysHeavenlyExpensesFollowersHereafterMansionsPlaces To LiveSpecial PlacesUpkeep Author:David Berg