While we look forward to a new heaven, let's first consider the new earth, for the new earth will indeed be like heaven on earth. We will live on a restored earth.

In heaven we will not longer cry, feel sad, or face death. Our bodies will be perfect, locked into eternal youth... ageless.

Every believer departing this old earth ...immediately transitions into heaven and is welcomed home by Jesus himself.

Existence continues at death for the believer in a fuller, more fulfilling way. Death should hold no fear for the believer.

Many of the passages that describe the millennial kingdom also, in continuity, describe the new heaven and the new earth the eternal state.

Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.

It is only as we focus our thoughts on heaven that we will correctly interpret life on earth.

Scripture indicates that heaven is not distant but rather... heaven is near in another realm.

Heaven is where God dwells. It is a specific place; a place of unparalleled tranquility and beauty. It includes the new heaven and new earth.

The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish.

The new earth will complete God's program. It will be what God intended for Adam and Eve in Eden.

The idea that I could work wonders as the Lord flutters through my mind like a glamorous butterfly. I hasten to catch it, but it escapes into the depths of my mind.

No matter what your circumstances are, never for a second forget that you solely owe yourself the gift of abundant success and happiness.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

An experience that changes nothing is hardly worth having.

I have, as you know, the utmost respect for President Obama as a person.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure