It cannot have been for nothing that God was pleased to disclose his counsels, fragment by fragment, through long intervals of silence and disappointment and disaster. In that slow preparation for the perfect revelation of himself to men which was most inadequately apprehended until it was finally given, we discern the pattern of his ways. As it was in the case of the first advent, even so now his guiding the course of the world to the second advent. We can see enough in the past, to find a vantage ground for faith; and when the night is deepest and all sight fails, shall we not still endure, like the men of old time, in seeing the invisible?
[quoted in James Boice's The Gospel of John (V. 1): The Coming of the Light, p. 305]
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