The riders in the race do not stop short when they reach the goal.

There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill.

There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's

self: "The work is done." But just as one says that, the answer comes:

"The race is over, but the work never is done while the power to work

remains." The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only

coming to rest. It cannot be, while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is in living. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Radio address on his ninetieth birthday, March 8, 1931

Holiness depends on God's faithfulness, and not on our feelings or awareness of it. We must put our faith in God's faithfulness.. It is our duty to grow and thrive in holiness. Now what God requires of us, we are to believe He will help us to achieve. We must not rely on our feelings or whether we are aware of being more holy or not. - John Owen

As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know.

We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are

some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the

ones we don't know we don't know. -Donald Rumsfeld (b. 1932)

Defense Department news briefing [12 February 2002].

If you do not march onward with Jesus, you are dying backward.

Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick. - G.K. Chesterton in What’s Wrong with the World