Quotes about Completion

SIT FINIS LIBRI, NON FINIS QUAERENDI

The riders in a 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."

Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing.

The End of every maker is himself.

When God's in it, the job gets done.

What God has begun in you, he will complete. Your destiny has already been decided. The One who decided it will give you all you need to get there.

One should never think that man can reach perfection, he can only aim at completion — not to be perfect but to be complete. That would be the necessity and the indispensable condition if there were any question of perfection at all. For how can you perfect a thing if it is not complete?

No tactic of the Enemy and no entrenched blindness on our part have the power to deter God from seeing his vision for us to completion. God's secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure. 'And this is his plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ--everyting in heaven and on earth' (Ephesians 1:10)--including his sons and daughters.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

Joy, joy forever, my task is done. The gates are passed, and heaven is won.