'There are always other rungs
There are always other rungs of the ladder to climb
Every step of the heavenly way is uphill — and steep at that. Heaven always keeps above us, no matter how far we climb toward it.
We never in this world get to a point where we may regard ourselves as having reached life's goal, as having attained the loftiest height within our reach — there are always other rungs of the ladder to climb .
The noblest life ever lived on earth, but began here its growth and attainment.
Mozart, just before his death, said, "Now I begin to see what might be done in music." That is all the saintliest man ever learns in this world about living: he just begins to see what might be done in living.
It is a comfort to know that that really is the whole of our earthly mission — just to learn how to live, and that the true living is to be beyond this world.
"Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.
But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus!" Philippians 3:13-14