The Testimony of Jesus

Chapter 11—No Claim to Infallibility

In the great plan of salvation and in the work of God in the earth, there is a union of the human with the divine. God, in His wisdom, has seen fit to connect with Himself poor, fallible humanity, in the carrying out of His divine purpose. As the most valuable gems and jewels are sometimes placed in comparatively worthless caskets, so the Infinite One has seen fit to express His divine will through instruments of clay. And He has chosen this plan regardless of the frailties and limitations of the human agency. These human instrumentalities have been fallible men and women; sometimes even children, as in the case of Samuel; they have been men and women, as was Elijah, of “like passions as we are.” But in the choosing of such instruments the greater glory redounds to the High and Holy One. TOJ 74.1