On Humility and the Problem of Evil

“The Abbot Antony, being at a loss in his meditation on the depth of the judgments of God, prayed, saying, ‘Lord, how comes it that some die in so short a space of life, and some live to the further side of decrepit old age: and wherefore are some in want, and others rich with various means of wealth, and how are the unrighteous rich and the righteous oppressed by poverty?’ And a voice came to him saying, ‘Antony, turn thine eyes upon thyself: for these are the judgments of God, and the knowledge of them is not for thee.’”

~A story from the Desert Fathers