“Would you treat this world like home? It isn’t. The greatest calamity is not to feel far from home when you are, but to feel right at home when you are not. Don’t squelch, but rather, stir this longing for heaven.”

—  Max Lucado

Source: Travelling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear (2001)

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