18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present groaning together in the pains of childbirth time are not worth comparing with the glory that until now. 23 And not only the creation, but we is to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not in hope 21 that the creation itself will be set free hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25 But if we from its bondage to corruption and obtain the hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with freedom of the glory of the children of God. patience. 22 For we know that the whole creation has been

The sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect [on the body]. The prisoner who had lost faith in the future was doomed. . . he let himself decline and became subject to mental and physical decay.” —Victor Frankl “Any attempt to restore a man’s inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal.” —Victor Frankl

“If I may answer briefly, and perhaps clumsily, but after long reflection: philosophy will be unable to effect any immediate change in the current state of the world. This is true not only of philosophy but of all purely human reflection and endeavour. Only a god can save us.” —Martin Heidegger

“When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother’s fair kingdom, and when our heads will find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, and when we will look back to pains and sufferings, then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step from a prison to glory; and that our little inch of time spent suffering in this life is not worthy of our first night’s welcome-home to heaven.” —Samuel Rutherford