Money Won’t Buy Heaven!

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The losing of one’s life is an irreparable loss. Whatever we may seem to get in exchange, we really get nothing. For if we gain the whole world, we can keep it but for a little while, and it will have no power to deliver us from death or give us the blessing of eternal life. The world cannot give peace of conscience or comfort in sorrow. It cannot purchase heaven. All we can do with the world is to keep it until death comes. We cannot carry even the smallest portion of it with us into the other world. “How much did he leave?” asked a neighbor, referring to a millionaire who had just died. “Every cent,” was the reply. So it is easy to see that there is no profit, but rather a fearful and eternal loss in gaining even all the world at the price of one’s soul.
—J. R. Miller

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