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“I don’t know much about the religions, but I know this: God looks at our love.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“The greatest love we feel for children, a spouse, friends, or family on earth amounts to a teaspoon of love compared to the oceans we will experience together for eternity. The Old Testament prophets foretold it, Jesus demonstrated it, and those who have had a peek behind the veil consistently say the same thing—God is love, and Heaven will be the greatest reunion ever.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“The intimacy of love God has for us is hard to comprehend. The only comparison comes by analogy—the connection we feel with a best friend, the oneness we want with a spouse, our tender love and desire for our children—and yet there’s an intimacy that we seek with each other that always eludes us. We can never be as close, as intimate, or as one with another person as our souls crave. That’s because the oneness we crave will only be found when we are united by God with God. God likens it to his own marriage to all of us together.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“And you know, back on Earth, I had so many questions for God. “If I ever meet Him,” I’d say, “I’m going to ask Him how He could let someone molest me when I was a child. How could He abide brutality against children or the suffering of starving people or cruelty toward the weak?” . . . In His presence I absolutely understood that in every way God’s plan is perfect. Sheer, utter perfection. Does that mean I can now explain how a child being murdered fits into God’s plan? No. I understood it in heaven, but we aren’t meant to have that kind of understanding here on Earth. All I can tell you is that I know God’s plan is perfect. In His radiance, it all makes perfect, perfect sense. In this way all the questions I had for God were answered without me even having to ask them. And yet, standing in His glorious presence, filled with His infinite wisdom, there was still one question I felt compelled to ask. . . . But in fact it wasn’t really a question for God at all. It was a question for myself. . . . “Why didn’t I do more for You? Why didn’t I accomplish more in Your name? Why didn’t I talk more about You? Why didn’t I do what You asked me to do?” It’s not that I felt regret—regret is a negative emotion, and there is nothing negative in heaven—it’s that I loved God so immensely I felt like He deserved so much more from me.1”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“Everything about Jesus is love. His love for you is so personal it seems as if it is only for you. You come to realize that He has cared for you forever and will continue to care for you forever. His love is alive. It is more than just a sense. You are becoming His love. You are His love. Jesus loves us completely.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“By studying thousands of detailed accounts of NDErs, I found the evidence that led to this astounding conclusion: NDEs provide such powerful scientific evidence that it is reasonable to accept the existence of an afterlife.”18”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“C. S. Lewis once said, “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. . . . Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“Was it heaven? I didn’t know, but it made my earthly existence seem like a foggy dream. What I was experiencing was far more real, far more tangible, and far more alive than anything I had ever known.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“God never created us to get our identity from what we do or what others did to us, but from who we are to God.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“Our culture diets on the candy of tolerance, but what it really craves is the meat of grace. Tolerance does not value people but simply puts up with their behavior or beliefs. Tolerance alone cannot accommodate both justice and mercy—it can only look the other way. Tolerance might deal with differences, but it can’t embrace us in full knowledge of sin and remove our guilt.”
― John Burke, No Perfect People Allowed: Creating a Come-as-You-Are Culture in the Church

“is fully known, and there’s no one to blame, nowhere to hide, no excuses to make. We will fully realize the truth even if we spent a lifetime fooling ourselves. The only thing left to do is take responsibility for it. And God wants us to do that now, so that we can be free of all pretenses. Then, with his help, we can grow into the people he intended. One”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“El problema principal aquí es que cuando creemos que "deberíamos" obtener los resultados porque sentimos que los merecemos. La realidad de la vida es que las cosas pueden o no suceder. De tal modo, las expectativas son una guía. Cuando las cosas no suceden de la forma en que pensamos, debemos tomar nota de ello, seguir adelante y buscar una manera diferente de alcanzar el objetivo. En un "mundo saludable" hacemos ajustes porque las cosas no sucedieron; simplemente tenemos que cambiar nuestra estrategia.”
― John Burke, El Problema es USTED: Cómo Dejar de Estorbar Su Propio Camino y Conquistar el Comportamiento Derrotista

“el autosabotaje se estanca diciendo "debió de ser como yo esperaba," y luego usted se bloquea. Una persona que se autosabotea deja de enfocarse en lo que intentaba alcanzar y termina sintiéndose amargada o molesta porque las cosas no se dieron como esperaba.”
― John Burke, El Problema es USTED: Cómo Dejar de Estorbar Su Propio Camino y Conquistar el Comportamiento Derrotista

“thought we deserved, this does not mean that we are a failure. The learning process of failure will place us one step closer to achieving our goals.”
― John Burke, The Problem is YOU: How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Conquer Self-Defeating Behavior

“Jeff heard a question, “echoed into every cell of my being. The question was simply, ‘To what degree have you learned to love?”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“My wayward children,” says the LORD, “come back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.” JEREMIAH 3:12-14, 20-22”
― John Burke, Imagine the God of Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Revelation, and the Love You've Always Wanted

“I could see millions of people left behind. Frantic, I turned back to God for an answer. “It’s free will, Erica.” “Free will?” I asked. “With the gift of life, I give you free will.” “But why can’t You save them? Don’t You love them too?” “I love all of My children,” God said. “But I can’t make them love Me back.”[8]”
― John Burke, Imagine the God of Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Revelation, and the Love You've Always Wanted

“We don’t feel fully known, understood, or valued by others or even ourselves—that’s why we labor to prove ourselves, get people to notice us, make a name for ourselves, or try to be someone else. Imagine how in Heaven, all this gets replaced with an unbelievable clarity of who God created you to be—fully yourself, fully unique, for a unique relationship with your Creator.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“we should try—to picture how magnificent, how spectacular, how much fun Heaven will be—how much of what we love about this life and more awaits us in eternity.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“God loves each of us like no other, and that most people are just like I was—they just don’t realize how great life with God can be, starting in this life, but even more so in the Life to come. A”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“Who defines who you are?” This is such a critical question, but so few of us have really stopped to answer it. Who has the right to define who you are? What you’re worth? What your purpose is? Whether you succeed or fail? How you define your identity is ultra-important. What you believe about yourself is what shapes all your decisions and actions. Most”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“Some Christians will probably wonder, How could God possibly reveal himself to those who don’t believe in him? But they forget God’s heart longs for every person to come home, from every nation, every language; they were all created by him and for him.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“Heaven will be that place where you realize how uniquely loved you are.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“Ask yourself these simple questions:          How did I get where I am?          How can I achieve my goal?          What do I need to do differently?          What am I willing to do in order to achieve my goal?          What do I need to change about my current situation?          What adjustments do I need to make in my current plan?”
― John Burke, The Problem is YOU: How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Conquer Self-Defeating Behavior

“God made you for himself—not to prove your glory, but to be his glory. His pride and joy. His beloved son or daughter. What he wants you to do is learn to be secure in his love, in who he made you to be, and from that place of security, you can do what he created you to do.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“All of life is a birth canal into eternal life.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“What he wants you to do is learn to be secure in his love, in who he made you to be, and from that place of security, you can do what he created you to do.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“So long as we have done something to the best of our knowledge and our ability, if the results we think we deserved don’t happen as they should have, we should understand that it is the norm of things on this planet.”
― John Burke, The Problem is YOU: How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Conquer Self-Defeating Behavior

“Cambridge and Princeton physicist James Jeans wrote, “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine.”
― John Burke, Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

“Condemnation engineering easily sneaks up on Christians.”
― John Burke, Mud and the Masterpiece: Seeing Yourself and Others through the Eyes of Jesus