"One of the most common vindications of God's love is found in the fact that, as much as humans suffer, they enjoy more. We are told that there is a great balance of pleasure over pain, and that it is by what prevails in a system that we must judge of its author. This view is by no mens to be overlooked. 

It is substantially true. There is a great excess of enjoyment, of present good, in life. The pains of sickness may indeed be intenser than the pleasures of health, but health is the rule and sickness the exception. A few are blind, or deaf, or speechless; but almost all of us maintain through the open eye and ear, a perpetual communication with nature and with one another. Some may be broken down with excessive toil; but to the great mass of humanity, labor is healthful, and invigorating and gives a zest to repose, and to the common blessings of life. We all suffer more or less from our connection with imperfect people; but how much more good comes to us from our social nature, from the sympathies and kind offices of family, friends, neighbors, than of pain caused by those who want to do us wrong. The world is not a hospital or an alms house, nor a dungeon. A beautiful sun shines on it. Flowers and fruits deck its fields. A reviving atmosphere encompasses it." Channing.