The point is not that God will refuse you admission to His eternal world if you have not got certain qualities of character: the point is that if people have not got at least the beginnings of those qualities inside of them, then no possible external conditions could make a ‘Heaven’ for them—that is, could make them happy with the deep, strong, unshakable kind of happiness God intends for us.
-C.S. Lewis
Great quote! I really do think that qualifying for the highest degree of heaven goes hand in hand with developing christlike personality traits. And that isn't something you can "cram" for in the last moments of your life.
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