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“Our grief is not a sign that we don’t really believe what we say we believe. It is the Christlike response to the brokenness of a world not made to be this way.” P 117

“There is no true peace without hope and no true hope without heaven.” P. 74

“The peace we crave will come only when we see God as he is. To long for heaven is to long for the "cessation of this war," as Augustine puts it. "We burn for entrance on that well-ordered peace in which whatever is inferior is forever subordinated to what is above it" When he appears the war will be over.” Page 64

“Because our culture values what our hearts naturally want – my brilliance on display, head and shoulders above the crowd – we will be tempted to see Jesus as something we put on beneath the surface, while we carry on angling for attention to whatever we have to offer the world.” P. 53 😳

In heaven, in a way perfect beyond all imagining, we won’t have to choose [between good things in the world or worshipping God]. We will be finished, once and for all, with any competition between love for the giver and love for his gifts. There will be no possibility of confusion between creatures and the Creator who’s glorified in them. P. 31

“The only way to long for a place you’ve never been is to long for the person whose presence makes that place what it is to you.” 🥹

“It's one thing for me to say that all you need is Jesus. It's another thing to say that all I have is Christ. He's not my base layer. He's not my bottom rung on a ladder I hope to climb. He's everything to me—all my righteousness, and therefore, all my hope and peace.
All other ground is sinking sand.”

“With the perspective of heaven, we can see things more clearly. There is no scarcity of goodness in God.” Pg 35