“The misfortunes and adversities of life, so called, assume a different color when we look at them through this glass. It is sad to hear people trying to live over their lives again and saying to themselves: ‘If I had chosen a different profession,’ ‘If I had taken a different turning of the road,’ ‘If I had married another person.’ All of this is weak and unchristian. The web of destiny we have woven, in a sense, with our hands, and yet God has had his part in it. It is God’s part in, and not ours, that gives us faith and hope.” — Clarence E.N. Macartney, Sermon on Predestination (1930)