I don’t know how it matters; I only know that it does, that when we suffer, God suffers, and he will never abandon the smallest fragment of his creation. . . . He will not give up on me, not now, not after my mortal death. He will not give up on any of us, until we have become what he meant us to be.
— Madeleine L’Engle, A Severed Wasp, quoted by Carole F. Chase in Glimpses of Grace, p. 158