"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.  What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly."

Thomas Paine

"Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.  But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind, and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."

Philippians 3:13-14, NIV