Existence continues at death for the believer in a fuller, more fulfilling way. Death should hold no fear for the believer.

In heaven we will not longer cry, feel sad, or face death. Our bodies will be perfect, locked into eternal youth... ageless.

Every believer departing this old earth ...immediately transitions into heaven and is welcomed home by Jesus himself.

Many of the passages that describe the millennial kingdom also, in continuity, describe the new heaven and the new earth the eternal state.

Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.

It is only as we focus our thoughts on heaven that we will correctly interpret life on earth.

Scripture indicates that heaven is not distant but rather... heaven is near in another realm.

Heaven is where God dwells. It is a specific place; a place of unparalleled tranquility and beauty. It includes the new heaven and new earth.

The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish.

The new earth will complete God's program. It will be what God intended for Adam and Eve in Eden.

A magnificent restoration awaits us. Christ comes in judgment; then restoration.

History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.

Sometimes I feel that I'm not just aging . . . I'm decomposing.

Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.

Just shred baby, shred.

I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.

What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.