“Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.”

“In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.”

“the beauty of nature appears only as a reflectin of the beauty,that belongs to spirit, as an imperfect incomplete mode [of beauty],a mode which in its substance is contained in the spirit itself"*hegel”

“Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself”

“O, the lessons here for us! Name your discouraging setback—personal, political, scholarly, ecclesiastical, cultural, global. Dare any Christian say that God is not in this for the good of his people and the glory of his name? Not if our God is the God of Ezra! Do you think these setbacks are not without some great purpose of righteousness bigger and more stunning than any of us can imagine?”

“God may sometimes appear to forget, when his justice is resting; but the time always comes when he remembers...”