No Toil Compares with the Joy to Come

The Institutes, the Conferences and On the Incarnation

The Institutes, Book 12

No Toil Compares with the Joy to Come

For all the long years of this present life vanish when you look at the eternity of the glory to come. All our sorrows disappear in the contemplation of that vast blessedness; like smoke they melt away and come to nothing, and like ashes they are seen no more.