Matthew 23:37
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,
Ephesians 1:10
as a plan for the fullness of the times, to unite all things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth. In him
2 Peter 3:8
But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.