Here is another “Quint of Quotes” from my collection, five quotes on the theme of living for eternity:
“O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!” – Psalm 39:4
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” – Jim Elliot
“Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. At that moment I will be more alive than I am now.” – Dwight L. Moody
“Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.”- Charles Spurgeon
“Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that men may live in eternity.” – Jan Hus
Has it really been 5 years? May 20, 2021, is the date of the first post, so yes. Happy Blogiversary to me!
A big thank you to everyone who has been reading along, and especially to those who comment and share! I don’t know what happened, but somehow after 3 years of hardly any growth, my number of daily readers (according to WordPress’ standard reports) doubled in 2025 and is on pace to almost double again in 2026. The chart below shows the total visitors (the dark bar) and the total views (the lighter bar) for every calendar year from 2021 to so far this year. 2026 is already the 2nd-most popular year.
Views and popularity aren’t a goal here, but it’s certainly not a negative! I am very thankful that the things I write about (which are very meaningful to me) are resonating with other people. When writing, I “consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,”[1] and my hope is to take ideas that are impactful to me and make them impactful to others by sharing them.
A lot has changed in 5 years. In that time and looking back at prior Blogiversary posts, I’ve learned it’s best not to set goals other than my informal one to try and post something every day. Using my library of old posts, that really should be attainable, but sometimes life gets in the way, and sometimes I’m just not up to it. I don’t like continuing to post old stuff if I haven’t written anything new in a while.
But when I think of the growth of viewership, I’m mindful of this story about Charles Spurgeon told by Warren Wiersbe:
“A young preacher once complained to Charles Spurgeon, the famous British preacher of the 1800s, that he did not have as big a church as he deserved. “How many do you preach to?” Spurgeon asked. “Oh, about a hundred,” the man replied. Solemnly Spurgeon said, “That will be enough to give account for on the day of judgment.””
As James wrote, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”[2] Only God knows where this blog will go, but above all, I hope to follow where He leads faithfully.
We are not home yet, so let us all keep “driving toward the morning sun.”
Here is another “Quint of Quotes” from my collection, on the theme of suffering and trials:
“God had one Son without sin; but He has no son without temptation.” – Charles Spurgeon, on Luke 11:4
“When God permits His children to go through the furnace, He keeps His eye on the clock and His hand on the thermostat.” – Warren Wiersbe, on 1 Peter 1:6-7
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” – C.S. Lewis, in The Problem of Pain
“Some things in the economy of grace are measured; for instance our vinegar and gall are given us with such exactness that we never have a single drop too much, but of the salt of grace no stint is made” – Charles Spurgeon
“Cheer up; you’re a lot worse off than you think you are, but in Jesus you’re far more loved than you could have ever imagined.” – Jack Miller
Here is another “Quint of Quotes” from my collection, on the theme of the Bible. I hope you find these five sayings interesting and thought-provoking. What quotes about the Bible do you like?
“This book will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from this book.” – D.L. Moody wrote this in the front of his Bible
“If people treated other books the way they treat the Bible, they would never learn anything.” – Warren Wiersbe
“Do I feed on the Word? That Word would be no food for me unless the Lord made it food for my soul, and helped me to feed upon it. Do I live on the manna which comes down from heaven?” – C.H. Spurgeon
“The New is in the Old concealed; the Old is by the New revealed.” – Saint Augustine
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” – 2 Timothy 3:16-17
Driving Toward the Morning Sun 