with intention

I was unpacking my office books this eve and this really old book caught my eye. A Man's Value to Society by Newell Dwight Hillis. this treasure is looking to be a must read in the next day or so.
this is the exerpt I flipped to...
On Aspirations and Ideals
Man is a pilgrim journeying toward the new and beautiful city of Ideal. Asiration, not contenment, is the law of his life. To-day's triumph dictates new struggles tomorrow. The youth flushed with success may couch down in the tent of satisfaction for one night only; when the morning comes he must fold his tent and puch on toward some new achievement. That man is ready for his burial robes who let his present laurels satisfy him. God has crowded the world with antidotes to contentment and with stumulants to progress. The world is not built for sluggards. The earth is like a road, a poor place for sleeping in, a good thing to travel over. The world is like a forge, unfit for residence, but good for putting temper in a warrior's sword. Life is built for waking up dull men, making lazy men unhappy, and the low flying miserable. When other incitements fail, fear and remorse following behind scourge men forward; but ideals in front are the chief stimulants to growth.
needed that right now
thank you God.
reminds me of what McManus wrote in Unstoppable force while speaking to the modern day church: I guarantee that the only problems you will solve are ones that you engage, and the only problems that you engage are ones that you percieve. (p.192) and ... This is the danger of nostalgia: in the comfort of a safe and warm time-place, we become blind not only to the real world we are called to engage but also to the movement of God's Spirit in our day. (p. 92)