What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.
The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.
The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.
Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.
Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.