"Confused Rollings and Wheels"

"It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as O the place! O the time! O if this had been, this had not followed! O the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel ... "

—Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ

Wildcat Beach

“Suppose He should ask me to wait five years? It stuns me to think of it. Yet—could I imagine that the mercy of God which has stretched to me from everlasting to everlasting could be exhausted in five years?”

—Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity