"When I was converted, I made the mistake of thinking the battle was already mine, the victory already won, the crown already in my grasp."
 
"But I found out, after serving Christ for a few months, that conversion was only like enlisting in the army, that there was a battle on hand, and that if I was to get a crown, I had to work for it and fight for it." - D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life - 1896

"Christian people make this mistake: they think the battle is already fought and won. They have the idea that all they have to do is put the oars down in the bottom of the boat, and the current will drift them into the ocean of God's eternal love. But we have the cross current. We have to learn how to watch and fight, and how to overcome. The battle is only just commenced. The Christian life is a conflict and a warfare, and the quicker we find it out the better." - D. L. Moody