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Heaven

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Eternal life with God; communion of life and love with the Trinity and all the blessed. Heaven is the state of supreme and definitive happiness, the goal of the deepest longings of humanity

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Passages ranked by relevance to Heaven, from most closely related outward.

§1023 CHAPTER THREE I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT

Those who die in God's grace and friendship and are perfectly purified live for ever with Christ. They are like God for ever, for they "see him as he is," face to face: 596

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