'If it be inquired why the Valley of the Shadow of Death must so often be transversed by the servants of King Jesus, the answer is not far to find. All of this promotive of the Lord's mode of working, which is summed up in these words, "Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD." Instruments shall be used, but their intrinsic weakness shall be clearly manifested; there shall be no division of the glory, no diminishing the honour due to the Great Worker. The man shall be emptied of self, and then filled with the Holy Ghost.'
Charles Spurgeon, 'The Minister's Fainting Fits' in Lectures to My Students, p.191.
