"What comfort will it be to you at death, that you lengthened your life by shortening your work? He who works much, lives much. Our life is to be esteemed according to the ends and works of it, not according to the mere duration. As Seneca says of a drone, 'there he lies, not there he lives; and long he abode, not long he lived.'" - Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor
Q: If you could run hard and hit the finish line with your chest at 50 or saunter slowly and be drug across the finish line at 90, which would you choose?
Q: Would you buy 40 years of life at the expense of living?
Living for the Lord may very well take years off of your life in some cases, but you will have lived a life worth living with whatever years you are given.
Living for life may very well add years to your life in some cases, but what you gain in quantity, you lose in quality.
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