Wit & Attitude Quote by Christopher Love

Heaven isn’t portrayed here as a prize you can cash in; it’s a climate you have to be able to breathe. Christopher Love’s line flips the usual moral math of reward and punishment by arguing that the afterlife doesn’t change you so much as expose you. If a “wicked man” arrives in heaven unchanged, the very goodness of the place becomes torment. Not because angels start policing him, but because holiness is experienced like an allergy. The sting is psychological: joy can feel like judgment when you’re built around resisting it.

The intent is unmistakably pedagogical. As an educator working in a Protestant devotional world, Love isn’t merely scaring sinners with fire-and-brimstone imagery; he’s closing an escape hatch. You can’t game salvation by postponing transformation, treating grace like a late-stage amnesty. “He who loves not grace upon earth” is a diagnosis of desire, not a list of infractions. The subtext is that virtue isn’t primarily compliance; it’s appetite. If you don’t learn to want what grace offers now, you won’t suddenly acquire the taste later.

This logic also carries a social edge. It reinforces a culture of self-scrutiny and present-day discipline: your life is evidence of what you actually love. Heaven, in Love’s framework, isn’t a change of address. It’s continuity with a life already being trained toward grace.