“On this present, fallen earth there is sorrow, suffering, sickness and death. On the new earth there will be life—everlasting life, unending health, joy, and gladness forever and ever.”

Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 112

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American theologian 1937

Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian

Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 121

“…That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.
Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.”

Bai Juyi (772–846) Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty

在天願作比翼鳥
在地願為連理枝
天長地久有時盡
此恨綿綿無絶期
The last four lines.
"A Song of Unending Sorrow"

“O pray the earth enfold
Our life-sick hearts and turn them into dust.”

Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) English writer

A Last Word (1899).

“They who bettered life on earth by new-found mastery.”
Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes.

Virgil book Aeneid

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 663 (tr. William Morris); the blessed in Elysium. A paraphrase of this is inscribed on the Nobel prize medals for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, and Literature: Inventas vitam juvat excoluisse per artes ("inventions enhance life which is beautified through art").