David Given Schwarm

We shrink therefore from God, knowing that He wants to enrich our being, rather than our having–that He wishes to elevate our nature, not submerge and lose it in trifles. He has called us to the superior vocation of being His children, of partaking of His nature, and of being related to Him as branches…

He often chooses weak instruments in order that His power might be manifested; otherwise it would seem that the good was done by the clay, rather than by the Spirit.

God does not always spare the good from grief. The Father spared not the Son, and the Son spared not the mother.