A. B. Simpson was an author, hymn writer, conference speaker, evangelist to the urban masses of New York City, and a missionary statesman. He founded The Christian and Missionary Alliance and Nyack College.
The following is from his book The Christ Life:
"First it must be a momentary life, not a current that flows on through its own momentum; but a succession of little acts and habits.
"You have Him for the moment, and you have Him perfectly; you are perfectly saved this moment; you are victorious this moment; and that which fills this moment is large enough to fill the next, so that if you shall renew this fellowship every moment, you shall always abide in Him.
"Have you learned this? The failures in your life mostly come through lost moments, broken stitches, little interstices, cleavages in the rock where the drops of water trickle down and become a torrent. But if you lose no steps and no victories, you shall abide in constant triumph.
"First, then, learn this secret, that you are not sanctified for all time so that there will be no more need for grace and victory; but you have grace for this moment, and the next moment, and by the time life is spent, you shall have had a whole ocean of His grace. It may be a very little trickling stream at first; but let it flow through every moment, and it shall become a boundless ocean before its course is done."
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