Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd.
I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.
If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.
Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional "next world" is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them.
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