If Heaven doesn't begin right now in our hearts, it won't feel like home when we get there!

"When we've been there 10,000 years..." / We'll see all trips were brief, / For there love's joy will banish tears, / As glory quenches grief....

The consuming fire of God's Love and Light is seen by unbelief as the hellish intensity of Divine Wrath, but by faith as the heavenly passion of Christ's Cross.

Home / that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Do you think there is heaven or hell? he signed.
‘I don’t know. Not in the Christian way, if that’s what you mean. I think people have a right to believe in whatever they want. I just don’t.’…
If someone came in here and gave you positive proof, would you do anything different?
She shook her head. ‘I think it’s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldn’t know what to do differently. Everyone just muddles through, trying not to make too many mistakes.

Against beliefs in extinction of self at bodily death or loss of identity in reincarnation stands the truly human-friendly hope celebrated by Easter faith: a personal, immortal reintegration of body, soul and spirit for which Jesus Christ’s Resurrection is the prototype.