Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
—Marcus Aurelius
Surely God is worthy of my highest affection, and most devout adoration; he is infinitely worthy, that I should make him my last end, and live for ever to him. Oh that I might never more, in any one instance, live to myself!
—David Brainerd
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
And it was after that that I found out the truth.
I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“But when our Lord Jesus Christ sees us doing much for God, he is pleased with us, as the gardener is when, having planted a tree, and digged about it, and manured it, and pruned it, he sees it at last covered with golden fruit.”
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it. – C.S. Lewis