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“For the entrance of the greater world is wide and sure, and they who see the straightness and the painfulness from which they have been delivered must wonder exceedingly as they are received into those large rooms with joy and immortality.”

A.C.

“There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven, but more often I find myself, wondering, whether, in our hearts of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.”

—CSL

“…It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in: aimed at earth and you will get neither.”

— CSL

“To come to Thee is to come home from exile, to come to land out of the raging storm, to come to rest after long labor, to come to the goal of my desires and the summit of my wishes.”

I read this book during a bout of depression after the birth of my second child. I did not know it at the time but facing toward eternity was a necessary balm to my souls current (and future) wrestlings and wringings.

Tadd and I have talked about reading it again the past couple months and I’ve kept putting it off.

For such a time as this, may we posture ourselves toward our heavenly home again and again.