"The temptation to depend on one's own wit and contriving is always present, and must be met by a spirit of conscious dependence upon God. The gospel of self-reliance, which the world ever applauds as manly virtue, is close kin to the reprobated justification by works which the Almighty despises. Rugged self-dependence may be all very well for political climbers and go-getters in the world of business, but it is as remote as can be from the life of faith which God seeks." ~Wrestling Jacob, p.57