“If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.”

“The life of faith does not earn eternal life: it is eternal life.”

To me, these mean simply that living for Heaven is best done by living in the now, for Heaven is already yours: behave as if you are there already, and you make it so that this world more resembles the next. To we Christians, this world is a foreign place, which we are only visiting, that we are most fundamentally citizens of the next world. Let us represent it well, that world.