Until We've Tried Them All

God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can't do it. I can't be righteous in my own strength!’ It is then, when we admit our utter powerlessness, that we find hope. For it is then when the Lord intervenes to do a work that we could not do for ourselves.

—Chuck Smith (June 25, 1927 – October 3, 2013, American pastor who founded the Calvary Chapel movement).