Quotes–part 2

From the previous post, here’s the second quote I’m hoping to not lose:

“In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives…. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.” ~ John Ruskin