“We are living out these lives of ours too much apart from God.  We toil on dismally, as if the making or the marring of our destinies rested wholly with ourselves.  It is not so.  We are not the lonely, orphaned creatures we let ourselves suppose ourselves to be.  The earth, rolling on its way through space, does not go unattended.  the Maker and Controller of it is with it, and around it, and upon it.  He is with us here and now.  He knows us infinitely more thoroughly than we know ourselves.  He loves us better than we have ever dared to believe could be possible.”

– William R. Huntingon (b. 1838)