making things jump out of nothing

But now, In Lazarus, you see that it is just that extremity that has always been our hope - that very prison, the doorway to our liberty. Because making things jump out of nothing is God's favorite act. He creates us out of it and raises us up from it. Jesus came to raise the dead. Not to improve the improvable, not to perfect the perfectible, not to teach the teachable, but to raise the dead. He never met a corpse that didn't sit right up then and there. And he never meets us without bringing us out of nothing to the joy of his resurrection...

- Robert Farrar Capon, Between Three and Noon: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace