Christ is the goal

Christ is the goal. His perfect, sinless character is the mark toward which we
are pressing. Such an aim and plan of life necessitate constant growth both in
grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. It forbids that we should
rest, contentedly, on a low plane of spiritual attainment. What an enchanting
view of life does Christianity thus present to the young! It is not a system of
dead forms and arbitrary rules, but a glorious life of unending progress in
knowledge and virtue, with Christ as our leader and our goal.
J.H. Garrison, Alone with God, 66-67