A religion that is satisfied with any ordinary attainments — indeed, that is ever satisfied at all — is not a living religion. The Master's benediction is upon those that hunger and thirst after righteousness. It is the longing soul that grows. There are better things before you than you have yet attained. Strive to reach them. It is not easy to rise Christward, heavenward, to advance in the Christian life, to grow better. It is hard, costly, painful many people are discouraged because they do not appear to themselves to be any better, to be any more like Christ, to-day than they were yesterday. But even true longing is growth. It is the soul's reaching Godward.
“The thing we long for, that we are
For one transcendent moment.”