Thursday, March 11, 2010

"Now you just remember this ... heaven is as blissful and lovely as it can be; but it's just the busiest place you ever heard of. There ain't any idle people here ... after the first day. Singing hymns and waving palm branches through all eternity is mighty pretty when you hear about it in the pulpit, but it's as poor a way to put in valuable time as a body could contrive. It would just make a heaven of warbling ignoramuses, don't you see? Eternal Rest sounds mighty comforting in the pulpit too. Well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands. Why Stormfield, a man like you, that had been active and stirring all his life, would go mad in six months in a heaven where he hadn't anything to do. Heaven is the very last place to come to rest in! ... and don't you be afraid to bet on that!"

~Mark Twain, Stormfield's Visit To Heaven~