Doing the Best With the Imperfect

If I wanted to build a house, I would go out into the forest and select the best type of tree I could find to get as nearly as possible the sort of lumber I wanted out of which to build my house. I might not be able to get a perfect tree, but I would do the best I could. That is the way God does. He gets the best man He can find to do the job He wants done.

― Mel Trotter (May 16, 1870–September 11, 1940, former drunk, evangelist, founder and director of Grand Rapids, Michigan City Rescue Mission for more than forty years).