And then those people looked to that old fisherman, and you know what they did? If he’d have had some great degree to go by, he’d—he’d have had something to glory in, but God took nothing and made something out of it. That’s the way God does: just takes the nothing to make something. And when you being—can become nothing in your own sight, you’re becoming something in God’s sight then. And always remember this, friends, the way up is down. “He that exalts himself shall be abased, but he that humbled himself shall be exalted.” So just love Him with all your heart and forget all you ever knowed about all other things but Jesus Christ. Just go ahead and love Him and work for Him; serve Him. If He wants you to be the doormat, well, you just be the doormat and that…It’s whatever He wants you to do, you do it. God bless you now.

A Greater Witness, 1953-11-15, Owensboro, KY, §23