# “Christ is the very heaven of heaven” by Richard Sibbes

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- Published: 2011-05-30T14:47:18-05:00
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“Heaven is not heaven without Christ. It is better to be any place with Christ than
to be in heaven itself without Him. All delicacies without Christ are but as a funeral
banquet.

Where the master of the feast is away, there is nothing but solemnness. What is 
all without Christ? I say the joys of heaven are not the joys of heaven without 
Christ. He is the very heaven of heaven…

To be with Christ is to be at the spring-head of all happiness.”

–Richard Sibbes, “Christ is Best,’ in [_The Works of Richard Sibbes_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851513980?tag=toletaupanre-20),
Vol. 1 (Carlisle, Pa.: Banner of Truth, 1634/1973), 339.

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