Heaven? Floating about with everyone you ever knew for eternity? Me family does me 'ed in after one day at xmas, I'd rather be mush.
The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, died for our sins and rose again, eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no condemnation for those who believe, but only everlasting joy.
Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.
And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.
I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.
We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.
Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.
Like God, Christmas is timeless and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting. It is something even more than what happened that night in starlit little Bethlehem; it has been behind the stars forever. There was Christmas in the heart of God before the world was formed.
And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.
The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.
A thousand lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah's smile
I have a smile 24/7.
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.
Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while
Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.
That's really important to me - creating moments that last forever.
The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God's gift of himself for our everlasting pleasure. "In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore."
...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Heavenly Father offers to you the greatest gift of all—eternal life—and the opportunity and infinite blessing of your own “happily ever after.”
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.
Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day.
I've already had my happily ever after.
The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of His comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream shall never be dried. His comfort and joy is a living spring in the soul, a well of water springing up to everlasting life.
