# The Good News About Heaven

## Metadata
- Author: [[Charles L. Allen]]
- Full Title: The Good News About Heaven
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- Many people live to the time when more of their loved ones are in heaven than on earth. Heaven becomes the place where our loved ones are rather than the place with the pearly gates and golden streets. We understand Thomas Moore’s words in “Come Ye Disconsolate”: “Earth has no sorrows that heaven cannot heal.” ([Location 63](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CCTVAG0&location=63))
- Suppose an unborn baby could be told of the life it would live after birth. With an undeveloped mind and understanding, the fetus would feel dread and fear. The prophet Isaiah realized a similar experience occurs when we are born into the next world. Paul later quotes Isaiah: “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9; Isaiah 64:4). Before birth and before death, the imagination is equally almost helpless. ([Location 86](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CCTVAG0&location=86))