“It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to have something to do and something to keep you busy, and you'd be unhappy if you didn't. Wouldn't it be ridiculous after being so busy here if you wound up in Heaven with nothing to do but sit on a cloud playing a harp for a thousand years?-Much less all eternity! I think you'd really get bored.” IfsThinkingYearsHardHeavenCitiesThousandEternityBusyCloudsWoundsRidiculousUnhappyBoredHeavenlyThousand YearsMillenniumHarps Author:David Berg
“The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.” EarthHeavenMankindHolyRainWoodsWoundsFallenYearningHerdsFlocksRiteWedlockAmorousDemeter Book:Aeschylus Source: Aeschylus
“I'd once heard a spiritual "riddle" that went like this: "What's the only thingin heaven that's the same as it was on earth?"The answer: the wounds in Jesus' hands and feet.” HandsEarthSpiritualJesusHeavenAnswersHeardFeetWoundsRiddleHands And Feet Author:Todd Burpo
“...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.” KnowsMenSoulMomentsSpiritualLyingHeavenCausesSidesInterestJusticeTakenEffectsWallInfiniteScreensWoundsBarsCeaseAttributesTowersCeilingsSpiritual NatureLove FreedomAttributes Of God Book:Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that he marks out for us and that with crosses he portraits us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut - Lord carve - Lord wound - Lord do anything that may perfect thy Father's image in us and make us ready for glory.” MaySufferingFatherHeavenChristPerfectCompanyLordPiecesCuttingReadyConflictGloryCrossesMarkIllCorruptionWoundsStealingPortraitsAffliction Author:Samuel Rutherford