All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. -- C.S. Lewis

Oh, I do not know how we shall stand the first day in heav­en. Do you not think we will break down in the song from over-de­light? I once gave out in church the hymn: "There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign," and an aged man stand­ing in front of the pul­pit sang heart­i­ly the first verse, and then he sat down weep­ing. I said to him aft­er­ward, "Father Lin­ton, what made you cry over that hymn?" He said, "I could not stand it—the joys that are com­ing." —T. Dewitt Talmage. [1832-1902], quoted in Crafts, p. 117