When God lessens our esteem of the world, he draws out our desires for the actual fulfillment of our heavenly comforts. Even so come Lord Jesus! Affliction reveals the glory of heaven. To the weary, it is rest; to the banished, home; to the scorned, glory; to the captive, liberty; to the warrior, conquest; to the conqueror, a crown of life; to the hungry, hidden manna; to the thirsty, a fountain of life, and rivers of pleasure; to the grieved, fullness of joy; and to the mourner it is pleasures for evermore. Heaven is precious and the soul desires to be with Christ, which is best of all. Voices from the Past , page 189 ~ Thomas Case, Select Works, A treatise of Afflictions , pp. 75-78.