Science has found that nothing can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies the fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of the universe, doesn’t it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation—the human soul? I think it does.

—Wernher von Braun

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

—Rabindranath Tagore

Think of it—Stepping on shore,
and finding it Heaven!
Of taking hold of a hand,
and finding it God’s hand
Of breathing a new air,
and finding it celestial air.
Of feeling invigorated,
and finding it immortality.
Of passing from storm to tempest
to an unbroken calm.
Of waking up and finding it Home.

—Robert E. Selle

Where is there a country without sin, crime, lawlessness, bloodshed, disease, death, sorrow, and heartache? Heaven is a country in which there is the absence of all that is common to any land, for in God’s country there are no barriers, no walls or curtains to divide; no race barrier; no soldiers because there are no wars; no policemen because there is no crime or sin; no undertakers because there are no graves; no physicians because germs, fevers, pestilences, diseases are unknown; no thieves because there is no darkness. Who would not yearn for this better and more desirable country in which there are no separations, no broken homes, no drunkards, no prisons, no hospitals, no beggars, no persons who are blind, deaf, dumb, or destitute? What a country! Are you not homesick for Heaven?

—H. Lockyer

If we really understood Heaven, we would be most unhappy and unsatisfied with life on earth. We would rebel against our earthly limitations. If we saw Heaven, we could not bear this earth. That’s why Heaven is forever: we cannot bear to leave it after we get there.

—Charles L. Allen

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Your body is not the real you. It’s just the physical house you live in. The real you is your spirit, which will live on forever. 

—David Brandt Berg

I am the Resurrection, and the Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.

—Jesus, John 11:25–26, KJV