"We have been thinking through how we are to look at poverty, our own or that of others. We have glimpsed just a little of the enormous biblical emphasis on compassion and justice, and viewed yet again the mystery of providence that resides behind so many aspects of the problem of evil and suffering. But if we expend all our energies pondering providence and wondering how to exonerate God, we may lose sight of the obvious. If at some point we stop worrying about whether God can vindicate himself this time, and start worrying about how we ought to be responding, under the God of the Bible, to this or that case of suffering, we may learn a little earlier to call upon the Lord for help, not for self-justification; in faith, not in bitterness. That we come to an end of ourselves will then be an incentive to sue God for grace, rather than an incentive to curse God and die."
- D.A. Carson, How Long O Lord?, p. 59
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