Whoever lives a noble life for Christ and God — he is one of God's workmen, working on that building of which God is the supreme Architect. - Henry Ward Beecher

Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.

Live for the other life. Endure as seeing Him who is invisible. Work by faith; work by hope; work by love; work by courage; work by trust; work by the sweet side of your mind; and so be like Christ, until you dwell with Him.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.