"My hearers, immortality is a glorious doctrine; but not given to us for speculation or amusement. Its happiness is to be realized only through our own struggles with ourselves, only through our own reaching forward to new virtue, and devotion. To be joined with Christ in Heaven, we must be joined with Him now in spirit, in the conquest of temptation, in charity and well-doing. Immortality should begin here. The seed is now to be sown which is to expand for ever."  

"Be not weary then in well-doing; for in due time we shall reap, if we faint not."