An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.
If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.
Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
I imagine Heaven would have very nice weather - perfect climate where you can wear a leather jacket or shorts and a sweater.
If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.