Preparing for Heaven Quotes

“Yet, once we can turn loose the results and recognize we are always inadequate but that our inadequacy is not the issue, we can begin to lay down the burden of seeking power. Then the satisfaction we experience in Christ spills over into everything we do.”
― Gary Black Jr., Preparing for Heaven: What Dallas Willard Taught Me About Living, Dying, and Eternal Life

“Pretense is the mainline drug of choice for most of us. We pretend to be people we aren’t, to believe something we don’t, to be happy when we are sad, to be secure when we are terrified, to have accomplished something we didn’t, to maintain hope for something we know is impossible, to search for something that doesn’t exist, or to say we are just fine when in truth we are full of seething anger or hopeless dread. Few”
― Gary Black, Jr., Preparing for Heaven: What Dallas Willard Taught Me About Living, Dying, and Eternal Life

“I pray that you would have a rich life of joy and power, abundant in supernatural results, with a constant, clear vision of never-ending life in God’s world before you, and the everlasting significance of your work day by day. A radiant life and a radiant death.”
― Gary Black Jr., Preparing for Heaven: What Dallas Willard Taught Me About Living, Dying, and Eternal Life

“Human beings have always longed for this story of peace, of shalom, to be realized. We yearn for that enduring, holistic condition of universal flourishing, to dwell in a state of security, provision, freedom, love, and justice. This is why an insatiable yearning for a heavenly state of bliss has remained a part of nearly every culture throughout human history. It’s part of the image of God carried within every human soul. The”
― Gary Black Jr., Preparing for Heaven: What Dallas Willard Taught Me About Living, Dying, and Eternal Life