Revelation 21:1-3 ESV – Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

Revelation 21:25 ESV – and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.

“Joy is the serious business of heaven.” -C.S. Lewis

“If I find in myself a desire which nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probably explanation is that I was made for another world.” -C.S. Lewis

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV – “He has put eternity into man’s heart.”

Hope can change your current experience, without changing your current reality.

Revelation 21:5 ESV – And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

Revelation 19:7 NIV – Let us rejoice and be glad
    and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come,
    and his bride has made herself ready.

Luke 14:16-20 NIV – Jesus replied: “A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. 17 At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’ 18 “But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.’ 19 “Another said, ‘I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.’ 20 “Still another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’

Revelation 19:8a NIV – “Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear.”

Hebrews 6:18-20a MSG – We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God where Jesus, running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post as high priest for us.

Romans 8:18 NIV – I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

Revelation 21:4 ESV – He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.

“Some day you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.” Billy Graham