'The true Christian is ever dying while he lives... he has no work but making his peace with God, and preparing for the judgement....
Day by day he unlearns the love of this world and the desire of its praise; he can bear to belong to the nameless family of God, and to seem to the world strange in it and out of place, for so he is.
And when Christ comes at last, blessed indeed will be his lot. He has joined himself from the first to the conquering side; he has risked the present against the future, preferring the chance of eternity to the certainty of time...
His reward will be but beginning, when that of the children of this world is come to an end.'
Cardinal John Henry Newman
Painting: Anton Laupheimer Schreibender, Mönch; in US public domain due to age
So true! xx
ReplyDelete"....and to seem to the world strange in it and out of place, for so he is." This grabbed my heart! <3
ReplyDeleteThank you, friends! This grabbed my heart also, Lindy.
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