And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.
To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.
Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.
Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven into us, Col. 2: 2, 3.
That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.