‘The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however good that pleasure may be in itself, is always taken away from us. The things for which men strive hardly ever turn out to be as satisfying as they expected, and in the rare cases in which they do, sooner or later are snatched away...For the Christian, all those partial, broken and fleeting perfections which glimpses in the world around him, which wither in his grasp and he snatches away from him even as they wither, are found again, perfect, complete and lasting in the absolute beauty of God.’
Peter Toon in Randy Alcorn, Heaven, p.434.
