How great will your glory and happiness be:
to be allowed to see God,
to be honored with sharing the joy of salvation
and eternal light with Christ;
to delight in the joy of immortality
with the righteous and God's friends.

 
St. Cyprian, 3rd century

Resolve to keep heaven before your mind,
to be ready to forego everything that can hinder you
or cause you to stray on your journey there.

 
St. Francis de Sales, 17th century

Why be afraid to die? Death brings us to God.

 
St. Josephine Bakhita, 20th century

We are Christians, and our homeland is not here.
Let us turn our steps homeward,
that our course may be guided to its conclusion.

 
St. Augustine, 5th century

Christ's passion has opened to us
the gates of the kingdom of heaven. 

 
St. Thomas Aquinas, 13th century

Admire all God's works in the world,
but be ready to fix your eyes on the things
destined never to pass away.

 
St. John Paul II, 20th century

When the day of our homecoming puts and end to our exile,
frees us from the bonds of this world,
and restores us to paradise and to a kingdom,
we should welcome it.

 
St. Cyprian, 3rd century

Look heavenward and consider where you belong.
Heaven is your destination.
There, every drop of bitterness will be changed into an ocean of sweetness.

 
Bl. Henry Suso, 14th century