“It is better to yield to providence than to fight it out...Yielding to the sovereign disposal is both our becoming duty and our greatest interest. Taking [our insistence on fighting for our own ends] away, we act most honorably; for what honor can there be in the creatures disputing his ground with his Creator? And we must act wisely, for whatever may be the success of some battles in that case, we may be sure that victory will be on heaven’s side. ‘For by strength shall no man prevail’ (I Samuel 2:9).”

Thomas Boston, The Crook in the Lot (Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria Publications, 2001), p. 87