John Hart > Quotes

“Earth is the closest that a non-Christian will ever get to heaven. Earth is the closest a believing Christian will ever get to hell.”
― John Hart, 50 Things You Need to Know About Heaven

“But the sin of Adam and Eve brought about a new kind of work as part of the punishment for sin. Work was now more difficult, painful, and less productive than it should have been. It brought sweat, fatigue, and toil never intended for us by our Creator.”
― John Hart, 50 Things You Need to Know About Heaven

“God requires only that one believe in Jesus as the one sent from the Father in heaven as a sacrifice on your behalf.”
― John Hart, 50 Things You Need to Know About Heaven

“God doesn’t grade on a curve. Even the one who gets a 99 percent score on goodness doesn’t get into heaven. Sin is like a cancer. One percent cancer in a vital organ of your body is still a body that is radically unhealthy. And 1 percent sinfulness in a person (if that minimum were even possible!) still makes for an ungodly person. Sin is an addiction, so we do it repeatedly. So how does anyone get as good as Jesus? The answer is that God declares us to be righteous—just as righteous as Jesus is—when we believe that Jesus is the only one who can forgive us and wipe our slate clean.”
― John Hart, 50 Things You Need to Know About Heaven

“By placing our faith in Jesus as the only one who can forgive our sin, God looks at us the way he looks at his Son: fully and perfectly Righteous (with a capital R).”
― John Hart, 50 Things You Need to Know About Heaven