“God’s most effective difference makers seem to have “gone through some type of weakening process to break the outer shell of arrogance, self-righteousness, and dependence on personal strength, charisma, and talent. (2Cor.God uses failure, he uses sickness, he uses breakdown, and he uses sin, personal tragedy, and sorrow to reduce his people to usefulness. Unless the servant of God learns to depend utterly on God and to forsake self-dependence of any kind, he or she remains too strong to be of much value.”  (Robert Girard )