'God may consent, but not forever.'

We feel as if everything is forever, but I find it helpful, even consoling, to remember that from a cosmic standpoint we ourselves exist as individual units of self-awareness for the about the equivalent amount of time as this drop is separate from the larger body of water.
 

I'm not generally a fan of Emerson, but, here, yeah, he's O. K.
From a lecture he gave in 1854 in New York City, "The Fugitive Slave Law":

 "Slavery is disheartening; but Nature is not so helpless but it can rid itself of every last wrong. But the spasms of nature are centuries and ages and will tax the faith of short-lived men.

Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes surely. ...'God may consent, but not forever.'"

-- from The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904), p. 238

Photo "Water Drop" by José Manuel Suárez