Those are the people who say to God: “Thy will be done.” No soul that seriously and constantly desires Joy will ever miss it. To those who seek, it is found. To those who knock, it is opened.

Ah, the saved . . . what happens to them is best described as the opposite of a mirage. 

What seemed, when they entered it, to be the vale of misery, turns out, when they look back, to have been a well. And where present experience saw only salt deserts, memory truthfully records that the pools were full of water.

The good man’s past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven

And that is why the Blessed will say, “We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven”

And perhaps ye had better not call this country Heaven. Not deep Heaven, ye understand. “Ye can call it the Valley of the Shadow of Life

C.S.Lewis – The Great Divorce