Heaven “ I n speaking of this desire for our own far-off country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel a certain shyness. I am almost committing an indecency. I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you—the secret which hurts so much that you take your revenge on it by calling it names like Nostalgia and Romanticism and Adolescence . . . [it is] the secret we cannot hide and cannot tell, though we desire to do both. We cannot tell it because it is a desire for something that has never actually appeared in our experience. We cannot hide it because our experience is constantly suggesting it, and we betray ourselves like lovers at the mention of a name.” —C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory I recall my heart aching as I read this quote. It helped me realize that the pain I’d lived with all my life could be good if it directed my heart toward heaven. It also gave me hope that the pain would not last forever. “ T here is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” —I John 4:18
“ H eaven offers more than comfort; it offers compensation.” —Randy Alcorn, Heaven
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