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“I've learned that if I stay busy, especially by helping others, I don't think about my pain. In an odd way, my pain is its own therapy. I intend to go on until I can't go anymore. ”
― Don Piper

“I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

“Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us.
Meese encouraged me by reminding me of the”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

“Unworthy as I am, he allowed me to go to heaven, and I know the next time I go there, I’ll stay.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

“I refer to them as miracles-although some may call them fortunate circumstances-because I believe there are no accidents or surprises with God.”
― Don Piper with Cecil Murphey, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

“God still answers prayers, God still performs miracles. Heaven is real.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

“I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

“I had seen my refusal as not wanting to impose; they saw my change as giving them an opportunity to help.”
― Don Piper with Cecil Murphey, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

“As long as I'm here on earth, God still has a purpose for me.”
― Don Piper with Cecil Murphey, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

“He is your God, the one who is worthy of your praise, the one who has done mighty miracles that you yourself have seen.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

“In trying to be strong for them, I had cheated them out of opportunities to strengthen me. Guilt overwhelmed me, because I could-at last-see their gifts to me.
The shame flowed all over me, and I began to cry. This is their ministry, I thought, and I've been spoiling it. I felt such intense shame over not letting them help. When I finally did open up, I witnessed a drastic”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

“I woke up to singing and found myself singing too”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

“Just as it was necessary to reinflate my lungs to overcome pneumonia, I needed the breath of God to help me overcome the depression of my spirit.
I”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

“couldn't say it, but I believed then-and still do-that I survived only because a number of people wanted me to. They were relentless, passionate, and desperate, and they believed God would hear them. People prayed for me who had never seriously prayed before; some who hadn't uttered a word of petition in years cried out to God to spare me. My experience brought people to their knees, and many of them had changed in the process of praying for me to live.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

“To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord to those who love him and know him.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

“One question keeps troubling me: Why?. . . The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By nature, we're curious. We want to know. ”
― Don Piper

“Some things happen to us from which we never recover, and they disrupt the normalcy of our lives. That's how life is. Human nature has a tendency to try to reconstruct old ways and pick up where we left off. If we're wise, we won't continue to go back to the way things were (we can't anyway). We must instead forget the old standard and accept a 'new normal.”
― Don Piper with Cecil Murphey, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

“God had chosen to keep me alive. Even in my worst moments of depression and self-pity, I never forgot that.
Christy”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

“Some may not believe my account; they may think it was some kind of wish fulfillment during a point of severe trauma. I don't have to defend my experience. I know what happened to me. For those of us whose faith is in the reality of heaven, no amount of evidence is necessary.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

“Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us.
Meese encouraged me by reminding me of the real reason we have for fully living this life. It's to give everything we have to God--even the heartbreaks and pain. God is our reason to live.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

“That's perhaps the biggest miracle: People prayed and God honored their prayers.
As”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

“When we’re up against a struggle and we think we can’t keep going, we can change that by praising God.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

“When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.”
― Don Piper

“None of the hymns that filled the air were about Jesus’ sacrifice or death. I heard no sad songs and instinctively knew that there are no sad songs in heaven.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

“Sometimes things we take for granted every day can be taken from us permanently and suddenly, we're changed forever.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

“As I ponder this, I don’t believe my greeting committee said, “Oh no, he doesn’t get to stay.” They’re still there at the gate. They’re waiting. For them, time is not passing. Everything is in the eternal now—even if I can’t put that into words. Even if ten more years pass, or thirty, in heaven it will be only an instant before I’m back there again.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

“My feeling has been that once we’re actually in God’s presence, we will never return to earth again, because it will be empty and meaningless by comparison”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

“We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord” (2 Corinthians”
― Don Piper, People I Met at the Gates of Heaven: Who Is Going to Be There Because of You?

“Just then I realized how badly I had missed the whole idea. I had failed them and myself. In trying to be strong for them, I had cheated them out of opportunities to strengthen me. Guilt overwhelmed me, because I could—at last—see their gifts to me.”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

“And we can be confident that he will listen to us whenever we ask him for anything in line with his will. And if we know he is listening when we make our requests, we can be sure that he will give us what we ask for. 1 John 5:14–15”
― Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life