「我們若將起初的確信堅守到底，就必作基督的同夥了。」－希伯來書3:15
本仁約翰（John Bunyan,1628～1688）的名著「天路歷程」裡描述著，沒有一個地方比屬天之國的大門前埋藏著更多的凶險。在門前，處處危機四伏：那裡有疑惑的城堡高聳直立，那裡有迷幻之地，不時的誘惑長途跋涉的旅人墮入無盡的長眠。
當屬天之國的輪廓在旅人面前歷歷在目時，陰間的門也肆無忌憚地洞開，黑暗勢力要傾勢而出。
「我們行善，不可喪志；因為若不灰心，到了適當的時候，就要收成。」－加拉太書6:9
「豈不知在場上賽跑的都跑，但得獎賞的只有一人？你們應當這樣跑，好叫你們得著獎賞。」－哥林多前書9:24從神的手裡得著最大恩典的秘訣，在於堅守最後半小時。－選
"We are made partaker of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end" (Heb. 3:14).It is the last step that wins; and there is no place in the pilgrim's progress where so many dangers lurk as the region that lies hard by the portals of the Celestial City. It was there that Doubting Castle stood. It was there that the enchanted ground lured the tired traveler to fatal slumber. It is when Heaven's heights are full in view that hell's gate is most persistent and full of deadly peril. "Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." "So run, that ye may obtain."
The problem of getting great things from God is being able to hold on for the last half hour. --Selected
