The glory of the eternal world has been opened before me. I want to
tell you that heaven is worth winning. It should be the aim of your
life to fit yourself for association with the redeemed, with holy
angels, and with Jesus, the world's Redeemer. If we could have but one
view of the celestial city, we would never wish to dwell on earth again.
There are beautiful landscapes on earth, and I enjoy all these
prospects of loveliness in nature. I associate them with the Creator.
But I know that if I love God, and keep His commandments, there is a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory reserved in heaven for me.
The Signs of the Times, April 8, 1889.
There, when the veil that darkens our vision shall be removed, and
our eyes shall behold that world of beauty of which we now catch
glimpses through the microscope; when we look on the glories of the
heavens, now scanned afar through the telescope; when, the blight of sin
removed, the whole earth shall appear in “the beauty of the Lord our
God,” what a field will be open to our study! There the student of
science may read the records of creation and discern no reminders of the
law of evil. He may listen to the music of nature's voices and detect
no note of wailing or undertone of sorrow. In all created things he may
trace one handwriting—in the vast universe behold “God's name writ
large,” and not in earth or sea or sky one sign of ill remaining.
Education, 303.
Let your imagination picture the home of the saved, and remember
that it will be more glorious than your brightest imagination can
portray. In the varied gifts of God in nature we see but the faintest
gleaming of His glory. Steps to Christ, 86, 87.
Human language is inadequate to describe the reward of the
righteous. It will be known only to those who behold it. No finite mind
can comprehend the glory of the Paradise of God. The Story of
Redemption, 430, 431.
Note: In
some areas phrases have been omitted by the compilers for whatever
reason. I have restored them as underlined text, that the full intent of
the author may be given.
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