"My dear Brothers and Sisters, if you only grow an inch in the course of ten laborious years, yet that growth is real—it is better than appearing to grow six feet in an hour when that would only be disease puffing you up and blowing you out. Often and often the soul needs to use the plumb line to see whether that which is built so very quickly is really built perpendicularly, or whether it does not lean this way or that. As the work goes on, we should frequently stop and say to ourselves, “Now, is this right? Is this real? Is this true?”"

- ~ C. H. Spurgeon, from The Plumb Line Sermon