"He has wise and gracious ends in permitting them, for a season, to be tossed with tempest, and not comforted. Ere long these designs will be more fully unfolded to us; and we shall be satisfied that he has done all things well. In the mean while it is our duty, and will be much for our comfort, to believe it upon the authority of his word."
— John Newton
Source: John Newton, Letter XIV, "On Temptation," in The Works of the Rev. John Newton, vol. 1 (1844), p. 143