Soul Depths and Soul Heights by Octavius Winslow

'I must confess,' says holy Baxter, 'as the experience of my soul, that the expectation of loving my friend in heaven powerfully kindles my love to them while on earth. If I thought I should never know, and consequently never love them after this life, I should remember them with temporal things, and love them as such, but now I delightfully commune with my pious friends, in a firm persuasion that I shall commune with them forever.'