A Sojourner's Quest

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The presence of Christ is the joy of my life. The service of Christ is the business of my life. The will of Christ is the law of my life. The Glory of Christ is the crown of my life.

~ H.W.S. The Speaker’s Quote Book: Over 4,500 Illustrations and Quotations for All Occasions . Roy B. Zuck, Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1997, p. 57.

Christ Alone

The world, I thought, belonged to me, Goods, gold, and people, land, and sea. Where’er I walked beneath God’s sky, In those old days, my word was “I.”

Years passed: there flashed my pathway near, The fragment of a vision dear;

My former word no more sufficed, And what I said was “I and Christ.”

But, O, the more I looked on Him, His glory grew, while mine grew dim; I shrank so small, He towered so high, All I dared say was “Christ and I.” Years more the vision held its place And looked me steadily in the face; I speak now in a humbler tone, And what I say is “Christ alone!”

All historians must confess that the turning point of the race is the cross of Christ. It would be impossible to fix any other hinge of history. From that moment the power of evil received its mortal wound. It dies hard, but from that hour it was doomed. ~ Charles H. Spurgeon. The Speaker’s Quote Book: Over 4,500 Illustrations and Quotations for All Occasions . Roy B. Zuck, Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1997, p. 58.