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"I meet many faithful Christians who, in spite of their faith, are deeply disappointed in how their lives have turned out. . . . what they had hoped to accomplish in life they did not. . . . Much of the distress of these good people comes from a failure to realize that their life lies before them."

"Those who have apprenticed themselves to Jesus learn an undying life with a future as good and as large as God himself. The experiences we have of this life . . . now fill us with anticipation of a future so full of beauty and goodness we can hardly imagine. . . . Our future can be incorporated into our life now and our life now can be incorporated into our future."

We should think of our destiny as being absorbed in a tremendously creative team effort, with unimaginable splendid leadership, on an inconceivable vast plane of activity, with ever more comprehensive cycles of productivity and enjoyment. This is the ‘eye hath not seen, neither ear heard' that lies before us in the prophetic vision (Isaiah 64:4)" (p. 399).