St. Alphonsus Liguori - Discourse

O how blessed are we, if we now suffer with patience the labours and afflictions of this present life! Trials, fears, infirmities, persecutions and crosses, will all one day have an end, and will, if we be saved, all become to us sources of joy and glory in heaven. Your sorrow, says our Blessed Saviour, shall be turned into joy. So great are the delights of paradise, that they can neither be understood nor conceived: Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him. Eye hath not seen beauty like to that of paradise; ear hath not heard harmony like to that of paradise: nor can the heart of man conceive what delights God has prepared for those who love and serve him. It is delightful to behold a country diversified with hill and dale and wood and water: it is delightful to behold a beautiful garden of fruits and flowers and fountains: but Oh, how much more delightful is it to behold heaven!