What we often feel in ecstatic moments in this world - 'I don't ever want this to stop' - will be the constant thought of our hearts in that world. We shall think it, knowing that in fact it never WILL stop.

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.

God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as it is he has set his love upon particular sinners, and this means that, by his own free voluntary choice, he will not know perfect and unmixed happiness again till he has brought every one of them to heaven. He has in effect resolved that henceforth for all eternity his happiness shall be conditional upon ours.

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.