Those who think of the result of hastening or hindering the gospel think
of it in relation to themselves and to the world. Few think of its
relation to God. Few give thought to the suffering that sin has caused
our Creator. All heaven suffered in Christ's agony; but that suffering
did not begin or end with His manifestation in humanity. The cross is a
revelation to our dull senses of the pain that, from its very inception,
sin has brought to the heart of God. Every departure from the right,
every deed of cruelty, every failure of humanity to reach His ideal,
brings grief to Him.
-- Education, page 263