The Crucified One is God's standing solidarity with the suffering, the tragedy, and the disaster of all time, and God's promise that it will not have the final word. The Risen One is God's final word about the universe and what God plans to do with all suffering.

It's heaven all the way to heaven. And it's hell all the way to hell. Not later, but now.

Death is not a changing of worlds as most imagine, as much as the walls of this world infinitely expanding.

Why would God provide heaven on earth when he's planned the real thing for you in eternity?

God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.

Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.

She died, and left to me This heath, this calm and quiet scene, The memory of what has been, And never more will be.

I have slept Weeping, and weeping I have waked; my tears Have flow'd as if my body were not such As others are, and I could never die.

La promesa de la inmortalidad basta para poner en pie una religión.

And yet I know that in her death, she has found the freedom she could not find in life. She is no longer confined to a room, a bed, and a body that no longer works.

Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

Even a lifetime of grief is only a little while in light of Eternity.